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So the moral of the story is that everyone with a grand vision and an ambitious project is doomed to failure, but there's still plenty of success to be had for

So the moral of the story is that everyone with a grand vision and an ambitious project is doomed to failure, but there's still plenty of success to be had for those willing to quickly slap some junk together.

cwp 9y ago
To put it more positively, progress is made by stringing together many small incremental improvements. Even the RISC revolution started as a special purpose project that stripped away the inessential to achieve a specific, narrow goal.