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„Inside every large problem is a small problem struggling to get out.“

- Hoare’s Law of Large Programs

„Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.“

- Parkinson’s Law

„Any piece of software reflects the organizational structure that produced it.“

- Conway’s Law

„There are three kinds of men: The ones that learn by reading. The few who learn by obser-vation. The rest of them have to pee on the electric fence.“

- Will Rogers

„You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you’ve reached that point, you can only shift the burden around.“

- Tesler’s Law of Conservation as Complexity

„Adding manpower to a late software project makes it even later.“

- Tesler’s Law of Conservation as Complexity

„Adding accessibility to a late project makes it even laterer.“

-Me

„The single biggest problem in communica-tion is the illusion that it has taken place.“

- George Bernard Shaw

„The first 90% of the code accounts for the first 90% of the development time. The remaining 10% of the code accounts for the other 90% of the development time.“

- Ninety-ninety Law

„A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.“

- Hofstadter’s Law

„People under time pressure don’t think faster.“

- Lister’s Law

„Whatever the state of a project, the time a project-leader will estimate for completion is constant.“

- Hartree’s Law

„We can make a Web site work with zero hearing. We can make one work with zero vision. We can even make a Web site work with almost zero movement. But we can’t make a Web site work with zero cognition.“

– Joe Clark, @media conference 2007

„The explanation requiring the fewest assumptions is most likely to be correct.“

- Occam’s Razor

„The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.“

- Clarke’s Second Law

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