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To Error or Not to Error

If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over?"                -John Wooden Lately it seems that a lot of web services have been making some major snafus. Both Yahoo and LinkedIn have been compromised over the last couple months and sites like Facebook and Google are constantly experiencing bugs in their services and interfaces. This makes me wonder, "Is it acceptable for big companies to make mistakes?" When I was a little kid, my mother had a sewing area in our family laundry room. On the wall above the sewing machine my mother had hung this quote: If you don’t have time to do it right, when will you have time to do it over? Whether I was doing long division or drafting a mechanical spec drawing, I was instructed to do them correctly by aligning my number columns correctly and drawing my lines straight and with consistent line weight. Taking time to do things correctly f...