The way to write a book is to actually write a book. — Anne Lamott

I would have written you a shorter letter, but I did not have the time. — Pascal

Premature optimization is the root of all evil. — Knuth

The cost of code is in maintaining it, not writing it. — multiple sources

In a world where everything is amplified, the most subversive thing is to slow down. — me, possibly originally someone else

Done is better than perfect. — Facebook's old internal motto. They got many things wrong; this wasn't one.

Each is a correction to a kind of self-deception I fall into every few months. When I see the matching quote, I see the trap.

See the discipline of finishing and the cost of features for two of the patterns I keep falling into.

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