Quote by Andrew Hunt

“When we perform maintenance, we have to find and change the representations of things—those capsules of knowledge embedded in the application. The problem is…

— Andrew Hunt

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial (20-50 percent) chance of introducing another. So the whole process…

— Anonymous

The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

— Anonymous

“Programmers are constantly in maintenance mode.”

— Andrew Hunt

Development is maintenance.

— Brian Marick

“The majority of the cost of a software project is in long-term maintenance.”

— Robert C. Martin

“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.”

— Giles Colborne

“In general, the longer you wait before fixing a bug, the costlier (in time and money) it is to fix.”

— Joel Spolsky

“All software has bugs – it’s just a fact of life. You”

— Jason Fried

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in…

— John Robbins

Yet we still see continuous reports of bugs.

— Anonymous

“It seems to be common, judging from the number of incidents and accidents that have resulted, for software designers to forget that the world…

— Nancy G. Leveson