“There is nothing in this world so permanent as a temporary emergency.”
The Man Who Sold the Moon (p. 100)
Short fiction, The Past Through Tomorrow (1967)
“The field of Architecture has given rise to a second major principle relating to the Life Cycle of Systems. This principle has emerged from the observation that temporary buildings erected to house Navy personnel in World War I continued to see yeoman service in World War II as well as in subsequent ventures, and are now a permanent, if fading, feature of Constitution Avenue in Washington… We conclude: A temporary patch will very likely be permanent.”
Source: Systemantics: the underground text of systems lore, 1986, p. 36
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