English Explanatory Dictionary

Pournelle's law

English dictionary entry

Meanings

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  1. The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.
  2. The principle that any bureaucracy eventually comes to serve its own interests rather than those it was created to help with.

Word forms

Pournelle's law

Etymology

After Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), an American writer of science fiction.

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