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| LAW 1. | | A list of one element is sorted in either ascending or descending order. |
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| | Corollary 1.1 | | A list of one element is a heap. |
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| LAW 2. | | The needs grow to fill the available resources to 150%, regardless of the amount of resources. |
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| | Corollary 2.1 | | Expenses grow to fill the available income to 150%, regardless of the amount of income. |
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| LAW 3. | | The more important the client or the more you wish to "show off" your program, the sooner the first bug will appear. |
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| | Corollary 3.1 | | The more important the report, the sooner you will spot a misspelling or grammatical error after giving it to your boss. |
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| | Corollary 3.2 | | A spell check will make certain every word is spelled correctly. It will not guarantee that each word is the correct word. |
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| LAW 4. | | It is faster to throw away the first version of any program and rewrite it from scratch than it is to debug it. |
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| LAW 5. | | People who buy expansion capacity in a computer never will. By the time they get around to it, the computer will be obsolete and it will be time to buy another. |
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| | Corollary 5.1 | | Do not worry about making a big mistake in purchasing a computer. Within three years it will need to be replaced anyway. |
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| | Corollary 5.2 | | The best time to buy a computer is when the next model is released. The new model will be expensive, but typically the price drops on the old model. |
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| | Lemma 6.1 | | On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being your worse nightmare, working with computers is 6 to 7. |
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| | Lemma 6.2 | | On a scale of 1 to 10, with 10 being your worse nightmare, working with people is 4 to 6.
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| LAW 6. | | On a scale of 1 to 10, working with people working with computers is 12. |
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| | Corollary 6.1 | | On a scale of 1 to 10, working with people in charge of computers is 17. |
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| LAW 7. | | Good news travels fast, even if it is false. |
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| | Corollary 7.1 | | Bad news travels even faster, regardless of whether it is true or false. |
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| LAW 8. | | No matter how large the parking lot is and independent of the traffic and whether you are arriving or leaving, someone will be getting into or out of a vehicle in the very next parking space. |