An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and with great restraint. As he designs the first work, frill after frill and embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored away to be used "next time". Sooner or later the first system is finished, and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery of that class of systems, is ready to build a second system. This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs. When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such systems, and their differences will identify those parts of his experience that are particular and not generalizable. The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the first one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile". -- Frederick Brooks, "The Mythical Man Month"
I’m not usually hungry in the mornings, so when I found myself craving breakfast in the shower one morning, several things occurred to me: 1) most types of food you can eat in the shower are good for you, 2) ergo, eating in the shower is good way to stay healthy and save time, and 3) cleaning up is easy. So if you tend to eat daily and take showers on a regular basis, and want to learn how you too can adopt this healthy lifestyle, read on!
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