The remaining work to finish in order to reach your goal increases as the deadline approaches
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n1
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Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n2
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A program generator creates programs that are more buggy than the program generator
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n3
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There is never time to do it right, but always time to do it over
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n4
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If there is ever the possibility of several things to go wrong, the one that will cause the most damage will be the one to go wrong
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n5
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When all else fails, read the instructions
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n6
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Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
		-- Murphy's Laws of Computation n7
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Things get worse under pressure
		-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n1
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The first ninety percent of the task takes ninety percent of the time, and the last ten percent takes the other ninety percent
		-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n2
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The man who can smile when something goes wrong has thought of someone he can blame it on
		-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n3
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The higher the "higher-ups" are who have come to see your demo, the lower your chances are of giving a successful one
		-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n4
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Every task takes twice as long as you think it will take
		-- Fundamental Law of Thermodynamics n5
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An ounce of image is worth a pound of performance
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n1
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Variables won't, constants aren't
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n2
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There is always one item on the screen menu that is mislabeled and should read : "ABANDON ALL HOPE, YE WHO ENTER HERE"
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n3
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A bad sector disk error or a head crash occurs only after you've done several hours of work without making a backup
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n4
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No matter how large and standard the marketplace is, IBM can redefine it
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n5
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The solution to a problem changes the problem
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n6
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Inside every complex and unworkable program is a useful routine stuggling to be free
		-- DSP Paradox (Nolans Placebo) n7
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To study an application best, understand it thoroughly before you start
		-- Educational Considerations n1
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Always keep a record of data, it indicates that you've been working
		-- Educational Considerations n2
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Always draw your curves, then plot the data
		-- Educational Considerations n3
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In case of doubt, make it sound convincing
		-- Educational Considerations n4
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Program results should always be reproducible
		-- Educational Considerations n5
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Don't believe in miracles
		-- Educational Considerations n6
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It works better if you plug it in
		-- Educational Considerations n1
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Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it
		-- Educational Considerations n2
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Blessed is the end user who expects nothing, for he/she will not be dissappointed
		-- Educational Considerations n3
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Given any problem containing N equations, there will be atleast N+1 unknowns
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n1
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An object or bit of information most needed will be the least available
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n2
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Any device requiring service or adjustment will be the least accessible
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n3
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Interchangeable devices won't
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n4
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In any human endeavor, once you've exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone else
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n5
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Badness comes in waves
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n6
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At the source of every error that is blamed on the computer, you will find atleast two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n1
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Any system which depends upon human reliability is unreliable
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n2
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Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n3
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Investment in reliability will continue until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n4
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The amount of expertise varies in inverse proportion to the number of statements understood by the general public
		-- SNAFU Equations (JB's Scholastic Laws) n5
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After months of training and you finally understand all of a programs commands, a revised version arrives with an all new command structure
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n1
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After designing a useful routine that gets around a familiar "bug" in the system, the system is revised, the "bug" is taken away, and you're left with a useless routine
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n2
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Efforts in improving a programs "user-friendliness" invariably leads to improving the user's "computer literacy"
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n3
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That's not a "bug", thats a feature ! 
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n4
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An expert is the person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n1
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The first myth of management is that it exists
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n2
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Any given program, when running, is obsolete
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n3
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If a program is useful, it will have to be changed
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n4
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If a program is useless, it will have to be documented
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n5
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Any given program will expand to fill all available memory
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n6
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The value of a program is proportional to the weight of its output
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n7
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Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n8
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Make it possible for programmers to write programs in English, and you will find that programmers cannot write in English
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n9
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Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n10
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If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization
		-- Thoreau's Theories of Adaption n11
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A bad sector disk error occurs only after you've done several hours of work without performing a backup. 
		-- Dr. Caligari's Come-Back
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No matter how large and standardized the marketplaceis, IBM can redefine it. 
		-- Estridge's Law
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A program generator creates programs that are more ``buggy'' than the program generator. 
		-- The Last One's Law of Program Generators
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As soon as a still-to-be-finished computer task becomes a life-or-death situation, the power fails.
		-- Wood's Axiom
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