Reminds me a lot of a Jeff Atwood quote from the Stackoverflow.com podcast's initial days. >It's much better to have "strong views, weakly held" than to have "

Reminds me a lot of a Jeff Atwood quote from the Stackoverflow.com podcast's initial days. >It's much better to have "strong views, weakly held" than to have "weak views, strongly held". Meaning that you should be confident in your opinions but at the same time be willing to concede defeat if someone can show you why your opinion is wrong or not the most optimal one. Rather than persistently defending a view that you also over time come to realise was wrong. Since you've invested so much time and are holding onto the weak view strongly, you would not want to abandon the view due to the feeling that it was all a waste.