The temporary tends to become permanent: Difference between revisions

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

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*{{Br|Systemantics}}, {{author|John Gall}}’s wonderful exposition of the horror of systems.