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A common mistake that people make when trying to design something completely foolproof is to underestimate the ingenuity of complete fools.
I’ve never seen a job being done by a five-hundred-person engineering team that couldn’t be done better by fifty people.
The fewer moving parts, the better." "Exactly. No truer words were ever spoken in the context of engineering.
Normal people believe that if it ain’t broke, don’t fix it. Engineers believe that if it ain’t broke, it doesn’t have enough features yet.Strive for perfection in everything you do. Take the best that exists and make it better. When it does not exist, design it.
The trick to having good ideas is not to sit around in glorious isolation and try to think big thoughts. The trick is to get more parts on the table