The fundamental problem with program maintenance is that fixing a defect has a substantial chance of introducing another.

  • -- Fred Brooks 弗雷德·布鲁克斯

程序维护的基本问题是,修复一个缺陷很有可能引入另一个缺陷。

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Everything must be recaptured and relocated in the general framework of history, so that despite the difficulties, the fundamental paradoxes and contradictions, we may respect the unity of history which is also the unity of life.

一切都必须在历史的大框架内重新获得和重新定位,这样,尽管困难重重,存在着根本的矛盾和矛盾,我们仍然可以尊重历史的统一性,也就是生命的统一性。

That's the fundamental flaw in the illusion that writers like to maintain, the idea that we can craft anything approaching the truth.

这是作家们喜欢坚持的幻想的根本缺陷,他们认为我们可以创造出任何接近真相的东西。

The problem - when you cast your net that wide - is you inevitably catch something you don't want to catch.

问题在于——当你把网撒得那么宽时——你不可避免地会钓到一些你不想钓到的东西。

You can't solve a problem as complex as inequality in one legal clause.

你不能在一个法律条款中解决像不平等这样复杂的问题。