My favorite iteration on this, linked there, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinsk

My favorite iteration on this, linked there, is https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamie_Zawinski#Zawinski's_Law : > Every program attempts to expand until it can read mail. Those programs which cannot so expand are replaced by ones which can. And my own take: > Every program attempts to expand until it can (a) interpret half of Common Lisp; (b) read and write mail; AND (c) implement a nontrivial subset of Quickbooks Online, including double-entry accounting. Those programs which cannot so expand are eventually forced to thus expand by the mythical force known as the Stakeholder. One must embrace the inevitability of the "rule.trigger_logic" column, of the "how do we make this work like gmail" question, and of the dreaded interplay between "balance due" and "transaction/account adjustments." Only then can one find inner peace.