This is an idea I've preached for a while now. Software requirements, goals, deadlines- all that stuff can be planned. Even the architecture can be sketched out

This is an idea I've preached for a while now. Software requirements, goals, deadlines- all that stuff can be planned. Even the architecture can be sketched out. But, for any sophisticated piece of software, you'll never get the actual code right the first time. If you think it's right, dig deeper. Find everything that's wrong with it, and do it again with those problems fixed. Great software and great art have one thing in common: the best version is never the first.