Remember Murphy's Law?
Well, here are LOTS and LOTS of Laws! PART 3
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Horngren's Observation: (generalized) The real world is a special case.
Iron Law of Distribution: Them that has, gets.
Jennings Corollary to the Law of Selective Gravity: The chance of the bread falling with the butter-side down is directly proportional to the value of the carpet.
Jones' Motto: Friends come and go, but enemies accumulate.
Klipstein's Observation: Any product cut to length will be too short.
Knight's Law: Life is what happens to you while you are making other plans.
Korman's conclusion: The trouble with resisting temptation is it may never come your way again.
Krueger's Observation:A taxpayer is someone who does not have to take a civil service exam in order to work for the government.
Law of Probable Dispersal: Whatever it is that hits the fan will not be evenly distributed.
Law of Reruns:If you have watched a TV series only once, and you watch it again, it will be a rerun of the same episode.
Law of Research: Enough research will tend to support your theory.
Law of Selective Gravity: An object will fall so as to do the most damage.
II. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
III. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
IV. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
V. Any program will expand to fill available memory.
VI. The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output.
VII. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
VIII. Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug.
IX. Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
X. Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Leibowitz's Rule: When hammering a nail, you will never hit your finger if you hold the hammer with both hands.
Lewis' First Law: People will buy anything that's one to a customer.
Lewis' Second Law: No matter how long or hard you shop for an item, after you've bought it, it will be on sale somewhere cheaper.
Lowery's Law: If it jams - force it. If it breaks, it needed replacing anyway.
Lubarsky's Law of Cybernetic Entomology: There's always one more bug.
Lyall's Conjecture: If a computer cable has one end, then it has another.
Lynch's Law: When the going gets tough, everybody leaves.
Lynne's Observation: If nobody uses it, there's a reason.
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