Shaw's Principle Build a system that even an idiot can use and only idiots will want to use it. An object or piece of information most needed will be least available. Any device requiring service or adjustment will be least accessible. Interchangeable parts aren't. 5. In any human endeavor, once you have exhausted all possibilities and fail, there will be one solution, simple and obvious, highly visible to everyone but you.
Badness comes in waves.
Thoreau's Theories of Adaptation 1. After months of training you finally understand all of a programs commands, a revised version of the program arrives with an all-new command structure. That's not a bug, it's a feature. If builders build houses the way programmers write programs, then the first woodpecker that came along would destroy civilization. Weinberg's Corollary An expert is a person who avoids the small errors while sweeping on to the grand fallacy.