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Every Program At MIT Attempts To Expand Until It Can Read Mail.
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Every program at MIT attempts to expand until it can read mail.
Those programs which cannot expand are replaced by ones which can.
-- The Law of Software Envelopment
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Every program in development at MIT expands until it can read mail.
-- The Law of Software Development and Envelopment at MIT...
Look Out! It's Microsoft Outlook An old maxim in the Unix community states, "All programs expand until they can read mail.
.. except Microsoft Outlook." Well, that's no longer true....
In a bureaucracy every routing slip will expand until it contains the maximum number of names that can be typed in a vertical column, namely, twenty-seven.
-- Daniel Melche...
We can't change, but we can expand. -- Nelso
If a program isn't working, expand it. -- Taylor's 2nd Law of Administratio
footprint n. 1. The floor or desk area taken up by a piece of hardware.
2. [IBM] The audit trail (if any) left by a crashed program (often in plural, `footprints')....
Computer programs expand so as to fill the core available.
Laws of Computer Programming 1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
2) Any given program costs more and takes longer....
1) Any given program, when running, is obsolete. (2) Any given program costs more and takes longer.
(3) If a program is useful, it will have to be changed....