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Second-system effect/syndrome: "When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an elephantine feature-laden monstrosity"

- Eric S. Raymond (http://catb.org/jargon/html/S/second-system-effect.html), originally taken from "The Mythical Man-Month: Essays on Software Engineering" (Addison-Wesley, 1975; ISBN 0-201-00650-2)