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by shoo 3676 days ago
> if you said "We value reliable software over meeting deadlines", then you'd actually have said something.

This reminds me of a Jamie Zawinski quote from the book "Coders at Work":

  > [...] Are you trying to write good software or are you
  > trying to be done by next week? You can't do both. One
  > of the jokes we made at Netscape a lot was, "We're
  > absolutely 100 percent committed to quality. We're going
  > to ship the highest-quality product we can on March 31st."