- Any Given Program, When Running, is obsolete.
- Any given program costs more and takes longer
- if a program is useful then it will have to be changed
- if a program is useless, it will have to be documented
- Program Complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of the programmer who must maintain it
- Not until a program has been in production for at least six months will the most harmful error be discovered
- If the input editor has been designed to reject all bad input, an ingenious idiot will discover a method to get bad data past it.
- Profanity is the one language all programmers know best..
- Investment in reliability will increase until it exceeds the probable cost of errors, or until someone insists on getting some useful work done
- Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later
- Fuzzy project objectives are used to avoid the embarrassment of estimating the corresponding costs
- The effort required to correct course increases geometrically with time.
- Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use it.
Below are a series of surprisingly relevant quotes taken from a book published in the 1970s. Some of the quotes are from the 60s.
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