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gvb on March 16, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: The worst program I ever worked on

Not everything worth doing is worth doing well.

— Tom West, quoted by Tracy Kidder in The Soul of a New Machine (Modern Library, 1997). ISBN 0-679-60261-5

Note that Data General is defunct, so I take this quote as a warning.

References:

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tom_West

* http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Soul_of_a_New_Machine

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