From The Joel on Software Translation Project

Original article: http://www.joelonsoftware.com/articles/fog0000000069.html

"There's a subtle reason that programmers always want to throw away the code and start over. The reason is that they think the old code is a mess. And here is the interesting observation: they are probably wrong."

[edit] Translations

• Hebrew - דברים שאסור לעשות, חלק א
• Chinese (Traditional): The Joel on Software Translation Project:你絕對不應該做的事