WORKING UNDER PRESSURE
Brooks’ Law
Adding people to a late project makes it later.
Murphy’s Law of Thermodynamics
Things get worse under pressure.
Bove’s theorem
The remaining work increases as the deadline approaches.
Meskimen’s Law
There is never enough time to do it right, but time can always be found to do it all again. Read more
Whose fault?
Petronius, Proconsul of Bithynia (beside the Black Sea
'One extra day'
‘When the last autumn of Dickens's life was over, he continued to work through his final winter and into spring. This is how all of us writers give away the days and years and decades of our lives in exchange for stacks of paper with scratches and squiggles on them. Read more