People sometimes give Charles Darwin a hard time about waiting 20 years to publish his theory of natural selection. I am strongly in favor of sitting at home and thinking about a new idea for a long while, especially an idea as good as natural selection. In our current age of product recalls, plagiarism, and fatally broken commercial software, wouldn’t we all benefit from taking our time just a little bit more? If there’s anything I could use more of, it’s civility, thoughtfulness, and some more attention paid to quality.

Laying in their deathbed, no one wishes they spent more time at the office, and no one wishes MS Word 2007 shipped a little sooner (and a little buggier).