A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until
the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.

Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And never read more

Algren's Precepts: Never eat at a place called Mom's. Never
play cards with a man named Doc. And never lie down with a woman
who's got more troubles than you.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible.

All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise which is
impossible.

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.

Ade's Law: Anybody can win--unless there happens to be a second
entry.

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the read more

Rowe's Rule: the odds are five to six that the light at the end
of the tunnel is the headlight of an oncoming train.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Experience is that marvelous thing that enables you recognize a
mistake when you make it again.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.

Acheson's Rule of Bureaucracy: A memorandum is written not to
inform the reader but to protect the writer.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

A conclusion is the place where you got tired of thinking.

Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.

Allen's Law: Almost anything is easier to get into than out of.