> look for, in dev teams is "strong opinions, loosely held". Rather strong opinions, not super-strongly held. If you know you're somewhat flexible in your opi

> look for, in dev teams is "strong opinions, loosely held". Rather strong opinions, not super-strongly held. If you know you're somewhat flexible in your opinion, it's going to be quite strong, but not all that strong. OTOH, if you have an even somewhat strong opinion, it's no use letting yourself be swayed from it all that easily; make them advance quite a good argument for it first. But then, depending on how heavily you load your adjectives, maybe that's what your (admittedly much more pithily put) version meant, too. I just wanted to put the modifiers out there lest someone read the maxim at its strongest.