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My personal version is "Broken gets fixed, shoddy lasts forever" http://mattrose.github.com/2009/02/04/broken-gets-fixed-shod...

It's not original to me. Not sure where I heard it, but I know it's not mine.

Thus spake the master programmer: "Though a program be but three lines long, someday it will have to be maintained." -- Geoffrey James, "The Tao of Programming"

Nothing is more permanent than the temporary: http://www.poetryfoundation.org/poetrymagazine/poem/243216