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An architect's first work is apt to be spare and clean. He
knows he doesn't know what he's doing, so he does it carefully and
great restraint.
As he designs the first work, frill after frill and
embellishment after embellishment occur to him. These get stored a
to be used "next time". Sooner or later the first system is finish
and the architect, with firm confidence and a demonstrated mastery
that class of systems, is ready to build a second system.
This second is the most dangerous system a man ever designs.
When he does his third and later ones, his prior experiences will
confirm each other as to the general characteristics of such system
and their differences will identify those parts of his experience t
are particular and not generalizable.
The general tendency is to over-design the second system, using
all the ideas and frills that were cautiously sidetracked on the fi
one. The result, as Ovid says, is a "big pile".