I can't tell you how much time is spent worrying about decisions that don't matter. To just be able to make a decision and see what happens is tremendously empowering, but that means you have to set up the situation such that when something does go wrong, you can fix it.

— Ward Cunningham, A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003)

From the 2003 conversation, under 'Collective Ownership of Code and Text'.

Topics: software engineering