galoot@l... wrote:
> In the interest of declining unearned credit, it is merely a quote I 
> remembered from someone else in the early days..
> I requoted a year or two ago to encourage someone beating  himself up 
> on his first attempts.
>
> Someone who wants to grep through a text version of the archive might 
> resurrect the original.
>
The first appearance of "look like crap" in the modern archives is 
credit to one Esther Heller on Jan 29, 1997
http://swingleydev.com/archive/get.php?message_id=12680#message

'I picked up a suggestion a while back from I don't remember where on 
dovetails that went something like "make a bunch of boxes to hold crap
until the boxes don't look like crap, then start on drawers".'

-- 
Kirk Eppler, screaming through the archives between meetings.
Process Development Engineering
Eppler.Kirk@g... 

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