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Over and over, people try to design systems that make tomorrow's work easy. But when tomorrow comes it turns out they didn't quite understand tomorrow's work, and they actually made it harder.

— Ward Cunningham A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003)

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Putting a new feature into a program is important, but refactoring so new features can be added in the future is equally important.

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