Article note: The tragedy of computing.
Simple systems become complex systems because they haphazardly accrete until the sunk cost is an unassailable pit.
Despite my manly looks, I am horribly timid. My romantic soul gets all clammy and shivery at the thought of running into some awful indecent unpleasantness.
— Humbert Humbert, from Vladimir Nabokov’s “Lolita”