wisdom
ihuxi!anon
FAMOUS ( OR INFAMOUS ) SAYINGS
These following sayings were passed around our department on
little slips of paper. Although not a complete list of them they
represent great wisdom and as such I thought I would share them
with everyone
Paul's Law: You can't fall off the floor!
Shirley's Law: Most people deserve each other.
Pardo's First Postulate: Anything good in life is either
illegal, immoral or fattening.
Pardo's Second Postulate: The three faithful things in life are
money, a dog, and an old woman.
Glib's First Law of Unreliability: Computers are unreliable, but
humans are even more unreliable.
Glib's Second Law of Unreliability: Any system that depends on
human reliability is unreliable.
Glib's Third Law of Unreliability: Undetectable errors are
infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by
definition are limited.
Glib's Fourth Law of Unreliability: Investment in reliability
will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or
until someone insists on getting some useful work done.
Golub's First Law of Computerdom: A carelessly planned project
takes three times longer to complete than expected; a carefully
planned project takes only twice as long.
Golub's Second Law of Computerdom: Project teams detest weekly
progress reporting because it so vividly manifests their lack of
progress.
Young's Law: All great discoveries are made by mistake.
Troutman's first Programming Postulate: Not until a program has
been in production for at least six months will the most harmful
error be discovered.
Troutman's Second Programming Postulate: Profanity is the one
language all programmers know best.
IBM Pollyanna Principle: Machines should work; people should
think.
Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it
later.
The Harvard Law: Under the most rigorously controlled conditions
of pressure, temperature, volume, humidity, and other variables,
the organism will do as it damn well pleases.
Steele's Philosophy: Everybody should believe in something - I
believe I'll have another drink.
Lieberman's Law: Everybody lies; but it doesn't matter, since
nobody listens.
Beckhap's Law: Beauty times brains equals a constant.
rabbit!jj
"You can't fall of the floor."
"Paul's law has been disproven by Leary's conundrum:
You can fall off anything, given the proper stimulus."
Credited to:
Alice!rcb