Товарищ прислал цитату, я как старый инженер не мог обойти ее вниманием:

There is an engineering axiom that time can always be found to fix something (because the customer — us — has been pissed off) but never enough time allocated to doing it right in the first place. This is the curse of the engineering world today.

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