Another Quote by Anonymous

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

“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

“The chance of introducing a defect into your program is proportional to the size of the changes you make to it.”

— Max Kanat-Alexander

“Most people assume that maintenance begins when an application is released, that maintenance means fixing bugs and enhancing features. We think these people are…

— 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

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

— Wietse Venema

“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

The first step in fixing a broken program is getting it to fail repeatably [on the simplest example possible].

— Tom Duff

Maybe it's not always about trying to fix something that's broken. Maybe it's about starting over and creating something better.

— Anonymous

“Any process can be improved. Defects that are invisible to the knowledgeable may be obvious to newcomers. The simplest solutions are the best. Repeating”

— Brad Stone

The failure of one thing is repaired by the success of another.

— Thomas Jefferson

Maybe its not always about trying to fix something that is broken. Maybe its about starting over and creating something better.

— Anonymous