Conway's Law # Any organization that designs a system (defined broadly) will produce a design whose structure is a copy of the organization's communication structure. — Melvin Conway, 1968 Hyrum's Law # With a sufficient number of users of an API, it does not matter what you promise in the contract: all observable behaviors of your system will be depended on by somebody. — Hyrum Wright Parkinson's Law # Work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion. — C. Northcote Parkinson, The Economist, 1955 Amdahl's Law # The speedup of a program using multiple processors is...