A Double Handful of Programming Quotes is a reasonably short list of quotes, only two of which I’d heard before. The last one (well, the last one when I read it) was by Linus Torvalds, and while I’ve read some quotes attributed to him in the past that I totally don’t agree with, this one I do. There’s a development project that I know that was exactly this – massively over-designed and, to use a quote from earlier in that list, there were no obvious deficiencies. That’s because it was so massively over-designed in an “all or nothing” approach rather than taking the approach of a little at a time. I wish I could give you more detail, I really do, but I think I might get shot by the perpetrator…