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"We can be proud of our abilities, but we must own up to our shortcomings, our ignorances and our mistakes."
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"Great software today is often preferable to perfect software tomorrow. If you give your users something to play with early, their feedback will often lead you to a better eventual solution."
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"All software you write will be tested—if not by you and your team, then by the eventual users—so you might as well plan on testing it thoroughly."
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