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 [[!meta title="The suckless agenda"]]
 
+    Laws of Computer Programming:
+            1. Any given program, when running, is obsolete.
+            2. Any given program costs more and takes longer.
+            3. If a program is useful, it will have to be changed.
+            4. If a program is useless, it will have to be documented.
+            5. Any given program will expand to fill all available memory.
+            6. The value of a program is proportional the weight of its output.
+            7. Program complexity grows until it exceeds the capability of
+                    the programmer who must maintain it.
+
+    -- fortune(6)
+
 # Guiding principles
 
 * [Software rot - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Software_rot).