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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by ChrisMarshallNY on Friday August 06, 2021 @10:18AM (#28087448)
"We are what we repeatedly do. Excellence, then, is not an act, but a habit."

- [Probably erroneously] ascribed to Aristotle

But naysayers will say we are "bikeshedding."

Meh. Whatevs. I do things the way I do.

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Re:Driving engineers to an arbitrary date is a value destroy... by cpach on Sunday August 15, 2021 @11:24AM (#28189497)
It’s a paraphrase, but the origin is indeed Aristotle.

http://www.universalethics.org/Ideas/Virtue_as_a_habit.htm

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