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by grues-dinner 623 days ago
Mr Akin's gotchu, fam:

> 2. . To design a spacecraft right takes an infinite amount of effort. This is why it's a good idea to design them to operate when some things are wrong .

> 3. Design is an iterative process. The necessary number of iterations is one more than the number you have currently done. This is true at any point in time.

> 4. Your best design efforts will inevitably wind up being useless in the final design. Learn to live with the disappointment.

Also 9 10, 11, 12, 13, 14 and a bunch of the others apply too.