A funny and ironic law: Good software will grow smaller and faster as time goes by and the code is improved and features that proved to be less useful are weed

A funny and ironic law: Good software will grow smaller and faster as time goes by and the code is improved and features that proved to be less useful are weeded out. [from the programming notebooks of a heretic] If I were to quote the above to a layman--someone well outside the world of software development--the response would be, "Well of course that's what would happen, it's obvious."