laws

## Amdahl's Law

> the overall performance improvement gained by optimizing a single part of a system is limited by the fraction of time that the improved part is actually used
> - Gene Amdahl

## Betteridge's law of headlines

> Any headline that ends in a question mark can be answered by the word no.
> - Ian Betteridge

## Brandolini's Law

> The amount of energy needed to refute bullshit is an order of magnitude bigger than that needed to produce it.  
> - Alberto Brandolini

## Brook's Law

> Adding manpower to a late software project makes it later.
> - Fred Brooks

## Bushnell's Law
> All the best games are easy to learn and difficult to master. They should reward the first quarter and the hundredth.
> - Nolan Bushnell, Founder of Atari

## Conway's Law

> Organizations which design systems (in the broad sense used here) are constrained to produce designs which are copies of the communication structures of these organizations.  
> - Melvin E. Conway, How Do Committees Invent?

> If it’s a core business function — do it yourself, no matter what.
> - Joel Spolsky, [In Defense of Not Invented Here Syndrome](https://www.joelonsoftware.com/2001/10/14/in-defense-of-not-invented-here-syndrome/)