Laws of computing - thi kendes for EDB
Laws of Computing
- If you have reached the point where you really understand your computer, it's probably obsolete.
- When you are computing, if someone is watching, whatever happens, behave as though you meant it to happen.
- When the going gets tough, upgrade your computer.
- The first place to look for information is in the section of the manual where you'd least expect to find it.
- For every action, there is an equal and opposite malfunction.
- To err is human...to blame your computer for your mistakes is even more human, its downright natural.
- He who laughs last, probably has a back-up.
- The number one cause of computer problems is computer solutions.
- A complex system that doesn't work is invariably found to have evolved from a simpler system that worked just fine.
- A computer program will always do what you tell it to do, but rarely what you want it to do.
- The more acronyms on a page, the harder the topic is to understand.
- Inside every program is a small module struggling to find a life of its own.
- Developeritus. Developers get their programs working perfectly on their machines, but they forget that their potential customers may have very different computer environments.
- Computer project teams avoid monthly progress reporting because it demonstrates their lack of progress.
- Program complexity grows until it exceeds the abilities of the programmer who must maintain it.
- You will never solve any computer problem if you are in a bad mood.
- When troubleshooting computer problems, people always assume that problem is the most obscure combination possible. Whereas, in reality the fault is invariably the simplest fault.
- Every computer program expands to fill all the available memory.
- If a computer supplier says a part is interchangeable, for example tape drives - they lie.
- Remember that your computer makes as many mistakes in two pico seconds as fifty men working for a years.