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The Duct Tape Programmer
joelonsoftware.com
He is the guy you want on your team building go-carts, because he has two favorite tools: duct tape and WD-40. And he will wield them elegantly even as your go-cart is careening down the hill at a mile a minute. This will happen while other programmers are still at the starting line arguing over whether to use titanium or some kind of space-age composite material that Boeing is using in the 787 Dreamliner.
When you are done, you might have a messy go-cart, but it’ll sure as hell fly.
I like this, especially because I like to think that this the mindset that I’ve repeatedly brought to the startups I’ve helped succeed over the years. I make things that work, as simply as possible, without bells & whistles, easy to approach and to iterate on. But they work out of the gate, blending things that maybe haven’t been combined yet. They show the possible and lay the foundation for a project’s future.