I actually said that because last night I had a revelation. In my software now I want to move slow and don't break anything. That's a more healthy philosophy, I think. It doesn't mean the software is fat or slow -- quite the opposite. The code is better and cleaner because I'm not in a race to make a big tall tower, I'm perfecting a craft to build a perfect cabinet.
A lot of todays IT is kind of core infrastructure and it hurt very much if you break things constant.
Just came to my mind now. Todays software is fat and slow like more and more people today vs. command liners are still the slim, sporty ones.