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Following are axioms that have been made by professionals in the field from time to time about computers and information technology. Look up each one for more details.


       Law              Subject

       Amara's law      Technology in general

       Amdahl's law     System and network speed

       Brook's law      Software projects

       Cole's law       Essential elements

       Freedman's law   Programming

       Metcalfe's law   Network value

       Moore's law      Transistor capacity

       Nacchio's law    IP gateways

       Shannon's law    Channel speed

       Thackara's laws  Product design

       Wirth's law      Software bloat


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When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume, among the Powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature's God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
The Declaration of Independence by History Documents View in context
The Crito seems intended to exhibit the character of Socrates in one light only, not as the philosopher, fulfilling a divine mission and trusting in the will of heaven, but simply as the good citizen, who having been unjustly condemned is willing to give up his life in obedience to the laws of the state.
Crito by Plato View in context
And the worst of it was, and the root of it all, that it was all in accord with the normal fundamental laws of over-acute consciousness, and with the inertia that was the direct result of those laws, and that consequently one was not only unable to change but could do absolutely nothing.
Notes from the Underground by Dostoyevsky, Fyodor View in context
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