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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

“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

All programming is maintenance programming, because you are rarely writing original code.

— Dave Thomas

“Program maintenance involves no cleaning, lubrication, or repair of deterioration. It consists chiefly of changes that repair design defects. Much more often than with…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

“Writing and repairing software generally takes far more time and is far more expensive than initially anticipated. “Every feature that is added and every…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

“Lehman and Belady have studied the history of successive releases in a large operating system.[6] They find that the total number of modules increases…

— Frederick P. Brooks Jr

Most of the effort in the software business goes into the maintenance of code that already exists.

— Wietse Venema

Most programs are not write-once. They are reworked and rewritten again and again in their lived. Bugs must be debugged. Changing requirements and the…

— Yukihiro Matsumoto

In the practical world of computing, it is rather uncommon that a program, once it performs correctly and satisfactorily, remains unchanged forever.

— Niklaus Wirth

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

— Robert C. Martin

Software is like entropy. It is difficult to grasp, weighs nothing, and obeys the second law of thermodynamics; i.e. it always increases.

— Norman Ralph Augustine