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Unlike cars, where there is a significant cost of raw materials involved, software is fairly fast to make. With less cost, the rush to market the product combined with relatively less risk, furthers the rush to start coding without thinking twice. Moore’s Law stated that there is no time for things to slow down to the point where such “fine points” as design, quality, and usability standards might become recognized. While the bulk of our industry is organized around the verifiable myth that we know what we want from the very beginning, and how to achieve it, and therefore construct our process in such a way that we will take an efficient, straightforward path to get there.