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There Are Laws You Know …
… and this chap had come across some of these …
… but there are some new ones like
Dijkstra’s Prescription for Programming Inertia:
If you don’t know what your program is supposed to do, you’d better not start writing it.
and
Gilb’s Laws of Unreliability;
At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
For the full list - click on through …. though, a lot of them do make this chap remember older, more gentle times … like;
The day after you buy the fastest new modem, they will change the standard so that your modem can only talk to modems of the same brand (only 100 of which were ever sold)