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Alex <alex@rivadpm.com> writes:
> A boss of mine in the early 1980s used to ask; "Why do we never have
> time to do it right, but we always have time to do it over?" 

"Build one to throw away" was one of the take-aways from The Mythical
Man-Month iirc.