From the American Heritage dictionatry, the word “Distillation”

• n.The evaporation and subsequent collection of a liquid by condensation as a means of purification.
• n.The extraction of the volatile components of a mixture by the condensation and collection of the vapors that are produced as the mixture is heated.
• n.A distillate.

With that definition in mind: this article in the Atlantic is as pure a distillation of Berg’s Seventh Law as rhetorical chemistry will allow.