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@@ -47,7 +47,7 @@ Of course, finding the relevant problems can be tricky...
(I suppose [Mythical Man Month](http://c2.com/cgi/wiki?PlanToThrowOneAway) laid claim to something similar decades ago.)
Turning an idea plus a bad implementation into a good implementation, on the whole, is far easier than turning just an idea into any implementation (and pages upon pages of design documentation rarely push it past 'just an idea'). It's not an excuse to willingly make bad design decisions - it's an acknowledgement that a tangible form of an idea does far more to clarify and refine those design decisions than any amounts of verbal descriptions and diagrams and discussions. Even if that prototype is scrapped in its entirety, the insight and experiences it gives is not.
Turning an idea plus a bad implementation into a good implementation, on the whole, is far easier than turning just an idea into any implementation (and pages upon pages of design documentation rarely push it past 'just an idea'). It's not an excuse to willingly make bad design decisions - it's an acknowledgement that a tangible form of an idea does far more to clarify and refine those design decisions than any amounts of verbal descriptions and diagrams and discussions. Even if that prototype is scrapped in its entirety, the insight and experiences it gives are not.
The flip side of this is: **Ideas are fluid, and this is good**. Combined with the second point, it's more along the lines of: **Ideas are fluid, provided they already have something to flow from.**