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• Never let lack of preparation hinder the implementation of a change.
• Quote #656 Only the truly naive believe that portability decreases performance.
  True performance is the function of a sound design, not implementation hacks....
• punt v. [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football
  Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying....
• punt: [from the punch line of an old joke referring to American football
  Drop back 15 yards and punt!"] v. 1. To give up, typically without any intention of retrying....
• I am a design chauvinist. I believe that good design is magical and not to be lightly tinkered with.
  The difference between a great design and a lousy one is in the meshing of the thousand details that either fit or don't, and the spirit of the passionate intellect that has tied them together, or tried....
• middle-out implementation See bottom-up implementation.
• under the hood adj. [hot-rodder talk] 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to grok it....
• under the hood: [hot-rodder talk] prep. 1. Used to introduce the underlying implementation of a product (hardware, software, or idea).
  Implies that the implementation is not intuitively obvious from the appearance, but the speaker is about to enable the listener to {grok} it....