Murphy’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- Any given program, when running, is obsolete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
- If a program is useless, it will have to be documented
- Any program will expand to fill available memory
- The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capabilities of the programmer who must maintain it
- Any non-trivial program contains at least one bug
- Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
- There’s always one more bug
- When working towards the solution of a problem, it always helps if you know the answer
- Inside every small problem is a large problem struggling to get out
- Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers
- The chief cause of problems is solutions
- The solution to a problem changes the problem
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