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   Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:29:47 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

   Jerry Lewis: You cannot polish a turd.
   Stanley Kubrick: You can if you freeze it.

   …and that's why we do freezes in software development.

   #Programming #Software

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:30:06 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     Yes these are actual quotes:
     https://archive.nytimes.com/www.nytimes.com/library/magazine/home/19990704mag-kubrick-profile.html

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     Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦 (rysiek@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:31:37 JST Michał "rysiek" Woźniak · 🇺🇦

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     I think we can call this the Stanley Kubrick Law of Software Development.

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     Alarod (alarod@mstdn.social)'s status on Sunday, 05-Jan-2025 07:39:56 JST Alarod

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     @rysiek “I will always remember that monkey with the bone. I can’t unsee it!”