Practicalmadness

Blue Flavor’s Brian Fling has collected some helpful axioms that inform his approach to web development. My favorites:

• Brooks’s Law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it even later. [Clients, take note. - ed.]

• Hofstadter’s Law: A task always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter’s Law.

• Clarke’s Second Law: The only way of discovering the limits of the possible is to venture a little way past them into the impossible.