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Software Engineering Laws

Some laws by engineers.
Some laws by thinkers.
Some laws by you.
Some laws by me.
Some laws by us.
and the irony!

Honor	Law	URL
Conway	Any piece of software reflects the organizational communication structure that produced it.	Wikipedia
Hofstadter	It always takes longer than you expect. (Even when you factor in Hofstadter’s law.	Wikipedia
@torvalds	Given enough eyeballs, all bugs are shallow.	Wikipedia
Gall	A complex system that works has evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system built from scratch won’t work.	Site
Zawinski	Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones that can.	Wikipedia
Eagleson	Any code of your own that you haven’t looked at for six or more months might as well have been written by someone else.	open to pull reqs
Lubarsky	There’s always one more bug.	open to pull reqs
Ninety-Ninety Rule	The first 90% of the code takes 10% of the time. The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time!	open to pull reqs
	The remaining 10% takes the other 90% of the time!
Knut’s Optimization Principle	Premature optimization is the root of all evil!	open to pull reqs
Single Responsibility Principle	A function should do one thing, and only one thing.	open to pull reqs
Ralph Johnson	Before software can be reusable it first has to be usable.	open to pull reqs
Alan Perlis	It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.	open to pull reqs

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