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• Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later. -- The Tenth Law of Computer Programming
• Murphy's Fourth Law of the Kitchen: When the meal you are preparing is on schedule, the guests will be forty-five minutes late.
  Corollary: When the guests are on time, the meal will be forty-five minutes late....
• Murphy's Law prov. The correct, original Murphy's Law read
  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 Eleventh Law It is impossible to make anything foolproof because fools are so ingenious.
• The difference between a bad student and a good student is that a bad student forgets all the material five minutes before the exam, while a good student five minutes after it.
  Hugo Krawczyk...
• How many software engineers -- does it take to change a light bulb?
  Four, plus one senior analyst to manage the project, one technical writer to correct the spelling and grammar of the one who documented it, one light bulb librarian, a sales-force of at least five to drum up enough users who want to turn the light on, 274 users to burn out the new bulb, at which point we go to tender for another light bulb change,....
• Murphy's First Law for Wives: If you ask your husband to pick up five items at the store and then add one more as an afterthought, he'll forget two of the first five.
• Brook's Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.