Beats "cut it 3 times and it's still too short" as my uncle said to me too many times... Along with "you hammer like old people fuck"

Measure three times, cut zero times

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hmm. I prefer to live by "I've cut it three times and it's still too short"

Measure once
Cut ~~once~~ twice
Measure again
Cut another time

I am an ardent believer in it, given how many times it has saved our assets at work, often to the point of annoying people. That said, I usually end up being right for insisting on more time and/or data, so it’s all good.

However, my spoonerific brain always gets this twisted to “measure once, cut twice”.

I unknowingly wrote this once in a comment about asking for more metrics during a design review.

My colleague (the author of said design document) replied with the relevant metrics and a comment saying “measure never, cut forever”. :D