Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.

Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility?
BRIAN FOOTE

Code Comprehensibility Elegant Fragility Simple Survival
Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.
BRIAN FOOTE

Effective Evolving Fragile Outside Perhaps Strategy Survival
Architecture is a hypothesis about the future that holds that subsequent change will be confined to that part of the design space encompassed by that architecture.
BRIAN FOOTE

Architecture Design Space

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