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On Feb 2, 2012, at 5:11 AM, Michael Sokolov wrote: > You have to estimate the likelihood of future change later and compare against the cost of wasted effort now. Not only wasted effort (one-off), but also the tax of added complexity (recurrent, exponential). Not to mention ongoing maintenance of unwarranted code. Tangentially related quote of the day: “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.” —JOHN GALL
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