Throwing one away

[John Bruner]

   "The management question, therefore, is not *whether* to build a
pilot system and throw it away.  You *will* do that.  The only question
is whether to plan in advance to build a throwaway, or to promise to
deliver the throwaway to customers.  Seen this way, the answer is much
clearer.  Delivering that throwaway to customers buys time, but it does
so only at the cost of agony for the user, distraction for the builders
while they do the redesign, and a bad reputation for the product that
the best redesign will find hard to live down.
   "Hence *plan to throw one away; you will, anyhow.*"

	[emphasis in the original]

	Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.
	*The Mythical Man-Month*
	Addison-Wesley, 1975
	ISBN 0-201-00650-2
-- 
  John Bruner (S-1 Project, Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory)
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