Murphys Laws: Gibb's Law to Gilb's Laws of Unreliability
(Murphy's Laws collected: 1583)
Gibb's Law : Infinity is one lawyer waiting for another.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Computers are unreliable, but humans are even more unreliable.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability Corollary : At the source of every error which is blamed on the computer you will find at least two human errors, including the error of blaming it on the computer.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Any system which depends on human reliability is unreliable.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : The only difference between the fool and the criminal who attacks a system is that the fool attacks unpredictably and on a broader front.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : A system tends to grow in terms of complexity rather than of simplification, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Self-checking systems tend to have a complexity in proportion to the inherent unreliability of the system in which they are used.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : The error-detection and correction capabilities of any system will serve as the key to understanding the type of errors which they cannot handle.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : Undetectable errors are infinite in variety, in contrast to detectable errors, which by definition are limited.
Gilb's Laws of Unreliability : All real programs contain errors until proved otherwise -- which is impossible.
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