The 5 Commandments of the Industry
- Moore’s Law : The number of transistors on a chip doubles annually
- Rock’s Law : The cost of semiconductor tools doubles every four years
- Machrone’s Law: The PC you want to buy will always be $5000
- Metcalfe’s Law : A network’s value grows proportionately to the number of its users squared
- Wirth’s Law : Software is slowing faster than hardware is accelerating
Except for Machrone’s law I feel everything stikes a chord within me….but I guess if you always go for the latest most bestest 
and garandanglus (if thats a word) that would also hold true….not for cheapos like me who go for second hand computer models
From “5 Commandments”, IEEE Spectrum December 2003, pp. 31-35
