Steward Brand the the Zen of Software Maintenance

Steward Brand’s forthcoming book will be on Maintenance.

“Healthcare is mainly maintenance. Software is mainly maintenance.” (67% maintenance to be precise, as seen in this chart of “the allocation of software effort” by Nathan Ensmenger).

“We should design for evolvability.”
(Yes! This reminds me of my Google Tech Talk ’09 “As we design for evolvability, the locus of learning shifts from the artifacts themselves to the process that created them.”)