A 50%-good solution that people actually have solves more problems and survives longer than a 99% solution that nobody has because it’s in your lab where you’re endlessly polishing the damn thing. Shipping is a feature. A really important feature. Your product must have it.
paraphrasing of jwz in The Duct-Tape Programmer, which was linked to me in an email this morning by the ever-wise @dpmattingly.
No idea why I was so surprised that this makes sense to me, even if I don’t really code. Writing is writing, language is language. (Tautology is tautology!)