Dinesh's Laws
Saturday, March 12, 2005
1. Dinesh's First Law:
To err is human, but to really foul things up requires a computer.
2. Dinesh's Second Law:
Logic is a systematic method of coming to the wrong conclusion with confidence.
3. Dinesh's Third Law:
Technology is dominated by those who manage what they do not understand.
4. Dinesh's Fourth Law:
If builders built buildings the way programmers write programs, then one woodpecker could destroy all of civilization.
5. Dinesh's Fifth Law:
An expert is one who knows more and more about less and less until he knows absolutely everything about nothing.
6. Dinesh's Sixth Law:
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.
7. Dinesh's Seventh Law:
All great discoveries are made by mistake.
8. Dinesh's Eight Law:
Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.
9. Dinesh's Ninth Law:
A meeting is an event at which minutes are kept and hours are lost.
10. Dinesh's Tenth Law:
The first myth of management is that it exists.
11. Dinesh's Eleventh Law:
A fatal error will not appear until a unit has passed final inspection.
12. Dinesh's Twelfth Law:
New systems generate new problems.
13. Dinesh's Final Law:
All's well that ends.
