cstanhope@social.coop ("Your weary 'net denizen") wrote:
How do I know this? Because in each of those instances, trying to go fast failed over and over, and it all took much longer than desired and cost more than expected, and yet we continued until done. What if we had recognized that upfront?
In each of these instances, the people pushing speed at all costs were not the engineers or scientists. I'm not saying they're immune to such thinking, but the people doing the work in these cases recognized excessive speed as unnecessary and detrimental.