> If you're going to assign a relatively medium talent engineer to solve a problem, it's cheaper to let them solve it twice, maybe even three times, than it is to try to figure out what the right solution is before touching a keyboard.

What’s even worse is when a lot of talented people spend a lot of time planning a solution on paper which turns out not to be workable in practice, and then they throw good money after bad trying to get the unworkable solution to work, rather than admitting they were wrong.