"When failure is not an option, success can be expensive."
— Peter Stibrany

January 1, 1970

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The quote gained immediate currency within the MOST development team. It started to spread when one of the MOST team members, Henry Spencer (one of the fathers of the open-source movement, a well-known long-time contributor to the sci.space newsgroups, and also MOST's Software Architect) began using this quote as his Usenet newsgroups .sig (this being one example). The quote has gained wider currency since then, for example in this 2005 blog post by Rand Simberg. More recently, the quote has bee