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Messy code that produces a valuable product is better than beautiful code that does nothing.

• dleslie 7y ago
  Or worse, the pursuit of beautiful, well-tested, aesthetically-pleasing code that is never finished and never shipped.
• bytematic 7y ago
  Imagine how many billion dollar ideas are just sitting on peoples hard-drives
• RookyNumbas 7y ago
  That's true. Except when interviewers see your profile and they suddenly care a lot about the hacky code you wrote at 3am on a saturday for fun. sigh...
• rafaelvasco 7y ago
  True. It's a balance that we as developers must always seek; Some people say that premature optimization is evil. Premature code refactoring can be just as damaging.