Pournelle's law
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
After Jerry Pournelle (1933–2017), American writer of science fiction.
Proper noun[edit]
- (computing) The rule of thumb that there should be at least one CPU for each user of a system.
- The principle that any bureaucracy eventually comes to serve its own interests rather than those it was created to help with.