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

— 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

“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

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

— Wietse Venema

“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

Systems program building is an entropy-decreasing process, hence inherently metastable. Program maintenance is an entropy-increasing process, and even its most skillful execution only delays…

— Anonymous

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

— Tom Duff

Development is maintenance.

— Brian Marick

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

— Dave Thomas

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

— Robert C. Martin

“Programmers are constantly in maintenance mode.”

— Andrew Hunt