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Bad news does not age well.
My interpretation of your aphorism: bad news is not forever.
Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a shared drive has 500GB free than they do when they see 2TB free.
Meaning that you should strive to program so as to encode the structure, relationships, and qualities of the objects of your task/domain. If you do it faithfully, then your code will be logically consistent and bug-free. I think this is most directly possible in declarative programming.
Parkinson's Law of Data: "Data expands to fill the space available for storage" Most frequent use: Justifying quotas on NAS/SAN devices. People retain more stuff when they think a shared drive has 500GB free than they do when they see 2TB free.
Earlier quoted context omitted.
My interpretation of your aphorism: bad news is not forever.
not aging well implies the thing gets worse the older it is. So, a more accurate interpretation would be "bad news gets worse the older it is" Although that seems unlikely to be what was intended.
Don't complain about being bored. Bored/boring means that people around you (e.g. family) aren't dying.