“The great advantage of the fountain pen is that it is slow. Ideas come faster than we can serialize them to paper. Therefore, the ideas are stored in an “accumulation buffer” in the brain. When in the buffer, the ideas interact and purify. If we empty the buffer too soon, we don’t give the ideas enough time to mature and we get half-baked prose.

Code badly written the first time remains buggy and filled with holes no matter how much it is debugged.