in reply to Quest: Compiling aphorisms

chromatic can speak for himself, but I love his (from memory, may be wrong) "There's a name for software that can't be changed, it's called hardware."

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Re^2: Quest: Compiling aphorisms
by chromatic (Archbishop) on Mar 16, 2005 at 19:47 UTC

    I also like "It's just software" along those lines.

    Another aphorism I've toyed with over the past week or two is something like Software that's difficult to maintain is a failure of your development process, not your maintainers nor your language. That's barely pithy though.

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      Well, to match the cliché office sign: A failure on the developer's part does^H^H^H^H^should not constitute a crisis on the maintainer's part.
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