"A bad idea executed to perfection is still a bad idea." (Norman R
Augustine) [Augustine's Law]
"Bad code executed by powerful machines is still bad code."
[sql-troubles]
"A great many problems do not have accurate answers, but do have
approximate answers, from which sensible decisions can be made." (Berkeley's
Law)
"It's easier to take/sell approximations as accurate answers than to find
accurate answers. In time people will see no difference in between."
[sql-troubles]
"About the time you finish doing something, you know enough to start."
(James C Kinser) [Kinser's Law]
"By the time you finish something, the problem changed." [sql-troubles]
"People will more likely repeat their known mistakes than trying something new." [sql-troubles]
"The ofter a method failed, the higher the chances for it to succeed when used by somebody else." [sql-troubles]
"People tend to reuse a method that previously failed (multiple times) than try something new." [sql-troubles]
"By the time we start something, somebody else solved already the problem." [sql-troubles]
"Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later." (Fred P
Brooks, "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays", 1975) [Brook's Law]
"Adding manpower seldom solves a problem that requires intelligent effort." [sql-troubles]
"The easiest way to make a project on time is to to move the deadline as suited." [sql-troubles]
"An object will fall so as to do the most damage." [Law of selective
gravity]
"A bug will appear to do the most damage." [sql-troubles]
"Anything can be made to work if you fiddle with it long enough."
(Wyszkowski's second law)
"Some problems do require infinite time." [sql-troubles]
"Build a system that even a fool can use, and only a fool will want to use
it." [Shaw's principle]
"Doing it the hard way is always easier." (Murphy's paradox)
"Doing it the easy way is always harder." [sql-troubles]
"Don't force it - get a bigger hammer." [Anthony's law of force]
"Don't optimize it, get a more powerful machine." [sql-troubles]
"Every solution breeds new problems." [Murphy's laws]
"Every new problem multiplies the possible solutions." [sql-troubles]
"It's easier to change the problem to fit the solution." [sql-troubles]
"Everyone has a scheme that will not work." [Howe's law]
"Any scheme can work by accident." [sql-troubles]
"It takes more than an accident for a scheme to work." [sql-troubles]
"Everything goes wrong all at once." (Quantized revision of Murphy's law)
"Small events converge toward bigger events." [sql-troubles]
"Things already went wrong before we observe them as such." [sql-troubles]
"If a problem causes many meetings, the meetings eventually become more
important than the problem." (Arthur Bloch, "Murphy's Law
(Price/Stern/Sloan", 1977) (Hendrickson’s Law)
"More meetings tend to create more problems." [sql-troubles]
"Fewer meetings tend to create more problems." [sql-troubles]
"If a project is not worth doing at all, it's not worth doing well." (Gordon's first law)
"The more a project is not worth doing, the more attention will
attract." [sql-troubles]
"If an experiment works, something has gone wrong." [Finagle's first law]
"If anything can go wrong, it will." [Murphy's laws]
"Things go wrong at a faster pace than one can find solutions."
[sql-troubles]
"If there are two or more ways to do something, and one of those ways can
result in a catastrophe, then someone will do it." [Murphy's Laws]
"It's enough one way, for things to result in catastrophes."
[sql-troubles]
"Sometimes it's better to do nothing than make things worse." [sql-troubles]
"Once all the known wrong solutions were exhausted, one discovers a new wrong solution." [sql-troubles]
"If they know nothing of what you are doing, they suspect you are doing
nothing." (Robert J Graham et al, "The Complete Idiot's Guide to Project
Management", 2007) [Graham's Law]
"People are good at ignoring the obvious." [sql-troubles]
"The more one explains, the more one is misunderstood."
[sql-troubles]
"If you mess with a thing long enough, it'll break." [Schmidt's law]
"Things break by design." [sql-troubles]
"One can learn to break things, by simply playing with them."
[sql-troubles]
"It's easier to break than design things. One can find thousands ways on
how to break the same thing." [sql-troubles]
"In any collection of data, the figure most obviously correct, beyond all
need of checking, is the mistake." (Finagle's third law)
"In any collection of data there's at least a mistake." [sql-troubles]
"In any given set of circumstances, the proper course of action is
determined by subsequent events." [McDonald's corollary to Murphy's laws]
"In crises that force people to choose among alternative courses of action,
most people will choose the worst one possible." (Rudin's law)
"People go wrong with confidence." [sql-troubles]
"The more alternatives, the higher the chances to go wrong."
[sql-troubles]
"Information necessitating a change of design will be conveyed to the
designer after - and only after - the plans are complete." [First law of revision:]
"In simple cases, presenting one obvious right way versus one obvious wrong
way, it is often wiser to choose the wrong way so as to expedite subsequent
revision." (First corollary
"The designer will get ahead of the design." [sql-troubles]
"It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so
ingenious." (Murphy's second corollary)
"It works better if you plug it in." (Sattinger's law)
"It works longer if you don't plug it in." [sql-troubles]
"It's not a question of IF the car will break down, but WHEN it
will break down." (Murphy's theory of automobiles)
"It's not a question of IF a program will break down, but when the code
will break down." [sql-troubles]
"The longer a program runs smoothly, the higher the chances that will
break down soon." [sql-troubles]
"Left to themselves, things tend to go from bad to worse." (Murphy's first corollary)
"The more on tries to fix things, the faster everything goes worse."
[sql-troubles]
"Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with
confidence." (Manly's maxim)
"One doesn't need logic to arrive at the right conclusion."
[sql-troubles]
"Matter will be damaged in direct proportion to its value." (Murphy's constant)
"Most problems have either many answers or no answer. Only a few problems
have a single answer." [Berkeley's Law]
"It's better to have a multitude of approximate solutions than one correct
solution." [sql-troubles]
"Negative expectations yield negative results. Positive expectations yield negative results." (Non-reciprocal law of expectations)
"Negative results yield when there are no expectations." [sql-troubles]
"No matter how many things have gone wrong, there remains at least
one more thing that will go wrong." (Murphy's law of the infinite)
"Things can go wrong in a multitude of ways." [sql-troubles]
"No matter how minor the job is, it's still over $50." (Murphy's rule of
auto repair)
"No matter what the experiment's result, there will always be someone
eager to: (i) misinterpret it, (ii) fake it, or (c) believe it supports
his own pet theory." (Finagle's second law)
"It's easier to fake the experiment to get the right results."
[sql-troubles]
"Nothing ever goes away." (Commoner's second law of ecology)
"Things do go away, but tend to come back." [sql-troubles]
"Nothing is as easy as it looks." (Murphy's first corollary)
"All things look simple until one dives deeper." [sql-troubles]
"Nothing is ever so bad that it can't get worse." (Gattuso's extension of
Murphy's Law)
"Once a job is fouled up, anything done to improve it only makes it worse."
(Finagle's fourth law)
"Once a mistake is corrected, a second mistake will become apparent." (Murphy's law of revision)
"Correcting mistakes introduces other mistakes." [sql-troubles]
"The chief cause of problems is solutions." [Sevareid's Law]
"The more time you spend in reporting on what you are doing, the less time
you have to do anything. Stability is achieved when you spend all your time
doing nothing but reporting on the nothing you are doing." [Cohn's Law]
"Reporting increases the needs for more information. The less one reports,
the lower the need for further information." [sql-troubles]
"The more innocuous the modification appears to be, the further its
influence will extend and the more plans will have to be redrawn." [H B Fyfe's second law of revision]
"The only thing more costly than stretching the schedule of an established
development program is accelerating it, which is itself the most costly
action known to man." (Norman R Augustine, "Augustine's Laws", 1983) [Law of
economic unipolarity]
"The other line moves faster." (Etorre's observation)
"The other team moves faster." [sql-troubles]
"If you change lines, the one you just left will start to move faster
than the one you are now in." (O'Brien's variation
"If you change a line, the whole codes breaks." [sql-troubles]
"The longer you wait in line, the greater the likelihood that you are in
the wrong line." (The Queue Principal)
"The longer you wait for a deliverable, the greater the likelihood that
it contains bugs." [sql-troubles]
"The perceived usefulness of an article is inversely proportional to its
actual usefulness once bought and paid for." (Glatum's law of materialistic acquisitiveness)
"The probability of anything happening is in inverse ratio to its
desirability." (Gumperson's law)
"The solution to a problem changes the problem." [Peers's Law]
"A problem to a solution changes thr solution." [sql-troubles]
"The tasks to do immediately are the minor ones; otherwise, you’ll forget
them. The major ones are often better to defer. They usually need more time
for reflection. Besides, if you forget them, they’ll remind you." [Wolf ’s Law of Management]
"There are two states to any large project: Too early to tell and too late
to stop." (Ernest Fitzgerald) [Fitzgerald's Law]
"There is a solution to every problem; the only difficulty is finding it."
[Evvie Nef's Law]
"There is a solution to every problem we are not trying to solve." [sql-troubles]
"Finding problems is easier than finding solutions." [sql-troubles]
"One stumbles upon the same problen twice." [sql-troubles]
"There is no mechanical problem so difficult that it cannot be solved by
brute strength and ignorance. [William's Law]
"There's no software problem so difficult that can't be solved by brute
force and ignorance." [sql-troubles]
"There's always one more bug." (Lubarsky's law of cybernetic entomology)
"Software solutions diverge to a set of bugs." [sql-troubles
"Things get worse under pressure." [Murphy's law of thermodynamics]
"Things get worse also without pressure." [sql-troubles]
"Things go right gradually, but things go wrong all at once." (Murphy's asymmetry principle)
"Tolerances will accumulate unidirectionally toward maximum difficulty of
assembly. (Klipstein's law)
"Two wrongs are only the beginning." (Kohn's corollary to Murphy's law)
"One wrong can be the beginning of another." [sql-troubles]
"When all else fails, read the instructions." [Cahn's axiom]
"Even if you read the instructions, things fall." [sql-troubles]
"When an error has been detected and corrected, it will be found to have
been correct in the first place." [Scott's second law]
"Any two related problems may look the same when regarded from same perspective." [sql-troubles]
"When in doubt, use a bigger hammer." [Dobbins’ Law]
"When taking something apart to fix a minor malfunction, you will cause a
major malfunction." (Murphy's second law of construction)
"Whenever you set out to do something, something else must be done first." (Murphy's sixth corollary)
"While the difficulties and dangers of problems tend to increase at a
geometric rate, the knowledge and manpower qualified to deal with these
problems tend to increase linearly." [Dror's First Law]
"Beyond a point, the problems are so complex that people can't
differentiate between geometric and linear rates." [sql-troubles]
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