Churchill's Commentary on Man:
Man will
occasionally stumble over the truth; most of the
time he will pick himself up and continue on.
Weinberg's Corollary:
An expert
is a person who avoids the small errors while
sweeping on to the grand fallacy.
Thal's Law:
For every
vision, there is an equal and opposite revision.
Conway's Law:
In any
organization there will always be one person who
knows what is going on. This person must be
fired.
Hoare's Law of Large Problems:
Inside
every large problem is a small problem struggling
to get out.
Levy's Eighth Law:
No amount
of genius can overcome a preoccupation with
detail.
Edwards' Law:
If it
weren't for the last minute, nothing would get
done.
Cheops' Law:
Nothing ever gets
built on schedule or within budget.
Weinberg's Second Law:
If
builders built buildings the way programmers
write programs, the first woodpecker that came
along would destroy civilization.
Troutman's Sixth Postulate:
Profanity
is the one language all programmers know best.
Jacquin's Postulate on
Democracy:
No man's
life, liberty, or property are safe while the
legislature is in session.
Katz's Law:
Men and
nations will act rationally, when all other
possibilities have been exhausted.
Harvard Law:
Under the
most rigorously controlled conditions of pressure,
temperature, volume, humidity, and other
variables, the test organism will do as it damn
well pleases.
Cole's Law:
Thinly
sliced cabbage.
