Techno Laws
Some of the basic laws and principles that |
govern today's techno world.

Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.

Whenever a system becomes completely defined, some damn fool discovers something which either abolishes the system or expands it beyond recognition.

Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.

An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.

Tell a man there are 300 billion stars in the universe and he'll believe you. Tell him a bench has wet paint on it and he'll have to touch to be sure.

All great discoveries are made by mistakes.

A meeting is an event at which the minutes are kept and the hours are lost.

New systems generate new problems.

Any given program, when running, is obsolete.

A computer makes as many mistakes in two seconds as 20 men working 20 years make.

The primary function of the design engineer is to make things difficult for the fabricator and impossible for the serviceman.

Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable. Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.

If you can't understand it, it is intuitively obvious.

Any instrument when dropped will roll into the least accessible corner.

Any simple theory will be worded in the most complicated way.

When all else fails, read the instructions.