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by ChrisMarshallNY 1852 days ago
Absolutely. In this case, I was the only person working on it, and reviewing the code long after the fact is what did it.

But doing it right the first time would have been better. That comes from establishing habit.

    "We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit." -Some guy that habitually wore a bedsheet.
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It's a quote from Will Durant, The Story of Philosophy: The Lives and Opinions of the World's Greatest Philosophers (1926)

[0] https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Aristotle#Misattributed

I did not know who did that. Thanks! I knew it was misattributed, but was really just a "cliff's notes" of a speech ARIS-stot-ly made.

I have never really cared who said it. It's a great quote.