Murphy's Computer Laws

[lbluepaw]

Murphy's Computer Laws

1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
   
2. Any given program costs more and takes longer each time it is run.
   
3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
   
4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
   
5. Any given program will expand to fill all the available memory.
   
6. The value of a program is inversely

Comments

[liontaris]

That's very sick. Very amusing, but very sick.

[lbluepaw]

It may be very sick but it is also almost all very true...

[liontaris]

Yeah. It's definitely true... So, when're you getting here for Easter dinner?

[lbluepaw]

Well I don't know the answer to your question at this time...

But here is another quote that is on the computer topic:
"With computers, every morning is the dawn of a new error.
and that one is in my opinion very true...

[schnee]

#13 kinda reminds me of Heisenbugs. :)

Oh, and there's also a very nice (and very true) statement going around about software programs:

The following two statements hold true:
1. Every program can be shortened by at least one instruction.
2. Every program contains at least one bug.
Thus, it follows that every program can be reduced to a single instruction that does not work.

Think about it. :)

[lbluepaw]

Yeah that is very ture... It is even true of my own programs...