03 Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
03 If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
03 If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
03 Any program will expand to fill any available memory.
03 The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
03 Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer to maintain it.
03 Make it possible for programmers to write in English and you will find that programmers cannot write in English.
03 Bradley's Bromide: If computers get too powerful, we can organize them into a committee - that will do them in.
03 Weinberg's Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
03 Hoare's Law of Large Programs: Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.
03 Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
03 Weinberg's Second Law: If builders built buildings the way programmers wrote programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization.
03 Troutman's First Programming Postulate: If a test installation functions perfectly, all subsequent systems will malfunction.
03 Troutman's Second Programming Postulate: The most harmful error will not be discovered until a program has been in production for at least six months.
03 Troutman's Third Programming Postulate: Job control cards that positively cannot be arranged in improper order will be.
03 Troutman's Fourth Programming Postulate: Interchangeable tapes won't.
03 Troutman's Fifth Programming Postulate: If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.
03 Troutman's Sixth Programming Postulate: Profanity is the one language all programmers know best.
03 Golub's Laws of Computerdom : A carelessly planned project takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully planned project takes only twice as long.
03 The effort required to correct the error increases geometrically with time.
