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Greenspun's tenth rule:

"Any sufficiently complicated C or Fortran program contains an ad hoc, informally-specified, bug-ridden, slow implementation of half of Common Lisp."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Greenspun%27s_tenth_rule)

Arthur C. Clarke's third law:

"Any sufficiently advanced technology is indistinguishable from magic."

(https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clarke%27s_three_laws#:~:text=....)

Apparently we now have the following, as well:

"Any sufficiently bad software update is indistinguishable from a cyberattack…"

(https://x.com/leighhoneywell/status/1814278230704111792)



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