Nathan's Laws of Software

Last updated on Feb 23, 2021

Nathan’s laws of software

Way back in 1997, Nathan Myhrvold (CTO of Microsoft at the time) wrote a paper entitled “The Next Fifty Years of Software” (Subtitled “Software: The Crisis Continues!”) which was presented at the ACM97 conference (focused on the next 50 years of computing).

Nathan Myhrvold’s Laws of Software:

Software is a gas - it expands to fit the container it is in
Software grows until it becomes limited by Moore’s Law
Software growth makes Moore’s Law possible
Software is only limited by human ambition and expectation

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