“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.”
Scott Adams (1957) cartoonist, writer
Source: Books, The Dilbert Principle (1996)
“There is an art to knowing where things should be checked and making sure that the program fails fast if you make a mistake. That kind of choosing is part of the art of simplification.”
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
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