So you're thinking of buying a Computer..
Again, these laws I mostly obtained from DeeL.
- Bradley's Bromide:
- If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee
-- that will do them in.
- Charley's Observation:
- Computers were invented by Murphy.
- Grabel's Law:
- 2 is not equal to 3---not even for very large values of 2.
- Horowitz's Song for Computer Programmers:
- I/O, I/O, it's off to work I go..
- Law of Compatability Applied to Social Sciences:
- If at first you don't succeed, transform your data set.
- Osborn's Law:
- Variables won't; constants aren't.
- Roy Kier Quote:
- APL is a write-only language. I can write programs in APL, but I
can't read any of them.
- Steinbach's Guideline for Systems Programming:
- Never test for an error condition you don't know how to handle.
- Turnauicka's Observation:
- To err is human; To really foul things up takes a computer.
- Utz's Laws of Computer Programming:
- Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
- Any given program costs more and takes longer.
- If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
- Any program will expand to fill all available memory.
- If a program is useless, it will be documented.
- The value of a program is proportional to the weight of it's
output.
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the
programmer who must maintain it.
- Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English,
and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
