Pournelle's law

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

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

Proper noun[edit]

Pournelle's law

  1. (computing) 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.
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