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• Specifications, design, and coding can be done at any speed - only debugging takes time.
  -- Weinberg's Programming Principle #6...
• The engineer's first problem in any design situation is to discover what the problem really is.
• Information necessitating a change of design will be conveyed to the designer after and only after the design is complete.
  (Often called the 'Now They Tell Us' Law) Fyfe's First Law of Revisio...
• Information necessitiating a change of design will be conveyed to the designer after - and only after - the plans are complete.
  (Often called the 'Now They Tell Us' Law) -- First Law of Revisio...
• Eng's Principle: The easier it is to do, the harder it is to change.
• The first example of superior principle is always inferior to the developed example of inferior principle.
• The project engineer will change the design to suit the state-of-the-art.
• Looks dangerous. YOU go first.
• At first sight, the idea of any rules or principles being superimposed on the creative mind seems more likely to hinder than to help, but this is quite untrue in practice.
  disciplined thinking focuses inspiration rather than blinkers it....