I used to have a poster on my wall at my office at Borland that said: DO IT. DO IT RIGHT. DO IT RIGHT NOW. I interpreted it as "start by writing a test or som

I used to have a poster on my wall at my office at Borland that said: DO IT. DO IT RIGHT. DO IT RIGHT NOW. I interpreted it as "start by writing a test or some code. make sure the code gives you correct results. only then, when the code generates correct results do you jump in and optimize," which is pretty close to the OP's message.