Quoting Fred Brooks, The Computer "Scientist" As Toolsmith: Studies in Interactive Computer Graphics, Information Processing, p. 625-634, 1977

The only way to achieve good fit between any design and its requirements is to find misfits and remove them; there is no direct way to derive form from requirement. Good fit is the absence of all possible misfits.

— Fred Brooks, The Computer “Scientist” As Toolsmith: Studies in Interactive Computer Graphics, Information Processing, p. 625-634, 1977 (via)

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