As long as we’re quoting Perlisisms while talking about single-use software...
“Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to see it as a soap bubble?”
https://www.cs.yale.edu/homes/perlis-alan/quotes.html
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