"Walking on water and developing software from a specification are easy if both are frozen" Edward V Berard
True enough even for when building with Xplan :)
Steve Jobs quote on quality and craftsmanship: “When you’re a carpenter making a beautiful chest of drawers, you’re not going to use a piece of plywood on the back, even though it faces the wall and nobody will ever see it. You’ll know it’s there, so you’re going to use a beautiful piece of wood on the back. For you to sleep well at night, the aesthetic, the quality, has to be carried all the way through.”
"Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand" even working with Xmerge, this quote has meaning and something to always keep in mind