Gutterson's Law

• Every nicely starting software project ends bad.
• Every badly starting software project ends even worse.

Kleinbrunner's Corrolaries

• If a software problem seems to be easy, it will be tough.
• If a software problem seems to be tough, it will be impossible.

Munbright's Laws

• Every new program is outdated as soon as it works.
• Every new program is more expensive and requires more resources.
• If a program is useful, it has to be changed.
• If a program is useless, it has to be documented.
• Every program is a bit larger than possible for the given memory resources.
• The value of a program is anti-proportional to the amount of paper used by this program.
• The complexity of a program will grow until it exceeds to abilitities of the programmer who has to maintain it.
• The worst bug will be found after the program is released for more than six months.
• System independent code does not exist.
• Every additional programmer will delay the release date further.
• Software problems are bigger if you have less time to solve them.

Farvour's Law

• There is always one remaining bug.

Brunk's Law

• A source listing with a start will also have an end.

Zeppelmier's Corrolaries

• The last four source pages of a critial program are always lost.

Pennington's Observation

• The probability for a program to work correctly is anti-proportional to the programmer's trust into his abilities.

Brooks' Law

• Putting twice as many programmers on a project that is late will make it twice as late.