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Premature design, deciding too early what a program should do, is as dangerous as premature optimization; specifications should be allowed to change on the fly.

Drawn from what Paul Graham said

design
What this subject means

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

Who should design software, and how?under our view: The maker should work in the medium and shape it rough: build the thing, not a picture of it

What Paul Graham actually said

  1. Paul Graham Co-founder of Y Combinator and Viaweb
    Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design-- deciding too early what a program should do.

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