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Stub a page for what has been called “the most important law”, “the only unbreakable law”, and a generalization of both Amdahl’s and Brooks’ laws. While this is important to software engineering, it’s applicable to any engineered system, and Conway 1968 uses all sorts of infrastructure to make their point alongside software-specific examples.
I have added a link to the Wikipedia page as evidence that this “law” is something people take seriously.
Also adjusted the wording in the anecdote/example, changing “passes” to “phases”, because: (1.) that’s what M. Conway actually wrote, and (2.) since with “passes” the example makes even less sense than with “phases”.
But this entry remains borderline off-topic here on the nlab, since this is not mathematics (nor philosophy, nor physics). Maybe it’s “business jargon”.
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