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Hofstadter's law: It always takes longer than you expect, even when you take into account Hofstadter's law.

Murphy’s law: Anything that can go wrong will go wrong.

Cheops’ law: Nothing ever gets built on schedule or within budget.

Parkinson’s law: Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion.

Brooks's law: Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.

Segal’s law: A man with a watch knows what time it is. A man with two watches is never sure.

Vierordt's law: retrospectively, "short" intervals of time tend to be overestimated, and "long" intervals of time tend to be underestimated.




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