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• Moore's Law /morz law/ prov. The observation that the logic density of silicon integrated circuits has closely followed the curve (bits per square inch) = 2^(t - 1962) where t is time in yea
  hat is, the amount of information storable on a given amount of silicon has roughly doubled every year since the technology was invented....
• Parkinson's Law of Data: prov. "Data expands to fill the space available for storage
  buying more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques....
• Parkinson's Law of Data prov. "Data expands to fill the space available for storage
  buying more memory encourages the use of more memory-intensive techniques....
• Brooks's Law: prov. "Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later" -- a result of the fact that the expected advantage from splitting work among N programmers is O(N) (that i
  proportional to N), but the complexity and communications cost associated with coordinating and then merging their work is O(N^2) (that is, proportional to the square of N)....
• The amount of time spent by a committee on an agenda item is inversely proportional to the cost of the item.
  -- Parkinson's Law of Committee...
• Davis' Law of Traffic Density: The density of rush-hour traffic is directly proportional to 1.
  5 times the amount of extra time you allow to arrive on time....
• iron: n. Hardware, especially older and larger hardware of {mainframe} class with big metal cabinets housing relatively low-density electronics (but the term is also used of modern supercomputers).
  Often in the phrase {big iron}. Oppose {silicon}....
• alt substrate: [MIT] n. Collective noun used to refer to potato chips, pretzels, saltines, or any other form of snack food designed primarily as a carrier for sodium chloride.
  From the technical term `chip substrate', used to refer to the silicon on the top of which the active parts of integrated circuits are deposited....
• cycle crunch: n. A situation wherein the number of people trying to use a computer simultaneously has reached the point where no one can get enough cycles because they are spread too thin and the system has probably begun to {thrash}.
  This scenario is an inevitable result of Parkinson's Law applied to timesharing....