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Steve McConnell Quotes: The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.
         

The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.


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