Murphy’s Computers Laws

1. No matter how many resources you have, it is never enough.
2. Any cool program always requires more memory than you have.
3. When you finally buy enough memory, you will not have enough disk space.
4. Disks are always full. It is futile to try to get more disk space. Data expands to fill any void.
5. If a program actually fits in memory and has enough disk space, it is guaranteed to crash.
6. If such a program has not crashed yet, it is waiting for a critical moment before it crashes.
7. No matter how good of a deal you get on computer components, the price will always drop immediately after the purchase.
8. All components become obsolete.
9. The speed with which components become obsolete is directly proportional to the price of the component.
10. (Hofstatler’s Law) Things always take twice as long as you anticipate, even if you take into account Hofstatler’s Law. (This corollary is often elevated to the rank of a law. Since it is only a special case of Murphy’s Law, though, it provides further justification for elevating Murphy’s Law to a demi-law.)
11. Software bugs are impossible to detect by anybody except the end user.