Battle Quote by Fred Brooks

“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

When you have large systems, it becomes almost impossible to make even very simple changes.

— James Gosling

Our ultimate goal is extensible programming. By this, we mean the construction of hierarchies of modules, each module adding new functionality to the system.

— Niklaus Wirth

Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

— Linus Torvalds

Changing behaviour is a very slow process.

— Taavet Hinrikus

Complexity that works is built up out of modules that work perfectly, layered one over the other.

— Kevin Kelly

Good architecture is necessary to give programs enough structure to be able to grow large without collapsing into a puddle of confusion.

— Douglas Crockford

“When we have a tightly-coupled architecture, small changes can result in large scale failures. As”

— Gene Kim

Getting adjusted to a new system is hard and it takes time.

— Nikola Vucevic

Break any problem into, or make any changes in, small increments.

— Anne Grant

Software is getting slower more rapidly than hardware becomes faster.

— Niklaus Wirth

The only way to write complex software that won't fall on its face is to hold its global complexity down - to build it…

— Eric S. Raymond