A funny and ironic law:<p><i>Good software will grow smaller and faster as time goes by and the code is improved and features that proved to be less useful are weeded out. [from the programming notebooks of a heretic]</i><p>If I were to quote the above to a layman--someone well outside the world of software development--the response would be, &quot;Well of course that&#x27;s what would happen, it&#x27;s obvious.&quot;