Computer Laws

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Utz's Laws of Computer Programming:: Any given program, when running, is obsolete.; Any given program costs more and takes longer.; If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.; Any program will expand to fill all available memory.;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.

Monday, March 30, 2015 @ 21:04:21 EDT

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