Various Laws of the World of Computers

Murphy's First Law :
Nothing is as easy as it looks.

Murphy's Second Law :
Everything takes longer than you think.

Murphy's Third Law :
Whatever can go wrong, will go wrong.

Murphy's Fourth Law :
If there is a possibility of several things going wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong.

Murphy's Fifth Law :
If anything just cannot go wrong, it will anyway.

Murphy's Sixth Law :
If you perceive that there are four possible ways in which a procedure can go wrong and circumvent these, then a fifth way, unprepared for, will promptly develop.

Murphy's Seventh Law :
Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse. After things have gone from bad to worse, the cycle will repeat itself.

O'Toole's Commentary on Murphy's Law :
Murphy was an optimist.

Nixon's Theorem :
The man who can smile when things go wrong is the man who has thought of someone he can blame it on.

Osborn's Law :
Variables won't, constants aren't.

Peer's Law :
The solution to a problem changes the problem.

Robert E Lee's Truce :
Good judgement comes from experience; experience comes from bad judgement.

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Misc collections :

Blessed is the end user who expects nothing, for he/she will not be disappointed.

Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.

The first myth of management is that it exists.

1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
3. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
4. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
5. The value of a program is propotional to the weight of its output.
6. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it.
7. Make it possible for programmers to write program in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.

 

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