“Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays the subsidence of the system into unfixable obsolescence.”
Frederick P. Brooks Jr.
The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering
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