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"Measure zero times, cut zero times." (files.techhub.social)
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"Measure zero times, cut zero times."
~ Carpenter who has achieved enlightenment and realized the wood is fine where it is
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https://xkcd.com/3149/ <-- shared cartoon
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[–] manuallybreathing@lemmy.ml 2 points 4 days ago

Thus, the last thing we can be accused of is having been hasty in convening the Second Congress. We were, in fact, guided by the maxim: measure your cloth seven times before you cut it; and we had every moral right to expect that after the cloth had been cut our comrades would not start complaining and measuring it all over again.

https://www.marxists.org/archive/lenin/works/1904/onestep/a.htm