# Wirth's law

> computing adage popularized by Niklaus Wirth that that software gets slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster

**Wikidata**: [Q1516845](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1516845)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wirth's_law)  
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## References

1. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013