A System You Can Keep for Life

Well, instead of building a gigantic system up front what we want to do instead is build up a comprehensive system over time, piece by piece.

It’s a special case of Gall’s Law:

“A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.”