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{{a|gsv|}}The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair, and expected to be removed by 1909. | {{a|gsv|}}{{Quote| | ||
Since [[Systemantics|systems]] don’t go away, and since they occupy space, our landscape is now littered with the bleached bones and rotting carcasses of old attempted solutions to our problems. | |||
:—{{author|John Gall}}, {{Br|Systemantics}}}} | |||
The Eiffel Tower was built for the 1889 World’s Fair, and expected to be removed by 1909. | |||
Any temporary thing, fix, solution or artifact ''that does the job'' — or even ''a'' job, if not the one you necessarily had in mind — will tend to become permanent. It will embed itself into the accreting, silting up on the riverbed, encrusting into [[Burgess Shale]]. Limpets attach to it, run processes of it, and the inconvenience of removing it and putting in place something more permanent quickly becomes harder | Any temporary thing, fix, solution or artifact ''that does the job'' — or even ''a'' job, if not the one you necessarily had in mind — will tend to become permanent. It will embed itself into the accreting, silting up on the riverbed, encrusting into [[Burgess Shale]]. Limpets attach to it, run processes of it, and the inconvenience of removing it and putting in place something more permanent quickly becomes harder | ||