In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake.
Sayre’s law
Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion
Parkinson’s law
Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can.
Zawinski’s law
Never attribute to malice that which is adequately explained by stupidity
Hanlon’s razor
In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence.
The L.J. Peter principle
Organizations which design systems are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.
Conway’s law
Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
Brook’s law
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
HL Mencken
Premature optimization is the root of all evil.
D. Knuth
Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic
Arthur C. Clarke
Just eat the students, said Hufflepuff. There’s no doubt about whether they’re sentient.
HPMOR
If you automate a mess, you get an automated mess.
Rod Michael