The Fallacy of Move Fast and Break Things
The <i>&quot;move fast and break things&quot;</i> is just a web app version of previous sayings in other domains:<p>- <i>&quot;A ship in harbor is safe but that&#x27;s not what ships are made for.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;If I&#x27;ve made more shots than you, it&#x27;s because I&#x27;ve _missed_ more shots than you.&quot;</i> -- variations of this from Michael Jordan, Wayne Gretzky, other athletes<p>- <i>&quot;All great writers got better by writing a lot of _bad_ sentences.&quot;</i><p>- <i>&quot;If you want to learn how to ride a bike, roller skate, ski, snowboard, etc you&#x27;re going to have to _fall down_ a lot.&quot;</i><p>All of them are trying to be provocative in the same way:  expect <i>repeated failures</i> when experimenting&#x2F;exploring what success looks like.<p>So MFABT when compared to variations of previous quotes is pretty standard advice.  Nevertheless, everybody likes to poke holes in it because it came from a source a lot of people don&#x27;t like:  <i>Mark Zuckerberg &amp; Facebook</i>.<p>Should programmers[1] at NASA <i>&quot;move fast &amp; break things&quot;</i>?!?  Of course not.  I know what the original <i>context</i> of MFABT was about so it doesn&#x27;t apply to NASA.<p>[1] <a href="https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff" rel="nofollow">https:&#x2F;&#x2F;www.fastcompany.com&#x2F;28121&#x2F;they-write-right-stuff</a>