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Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all h

Once you come up with a premise, you have to work out how it all happened. Its a bit like coming up with a spectacular roof design first. Before you can get it up there, you need to build a solid foundation and supporting structure. – Linwood Barclay

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You always want to go out there with the best book possible, so I listen to what my editors say, and even if they dont know how to fix it, I always seem to find a way. Trust Your Eyes is the best book Ive written, and I dont know if I can do any better. – Linwood Barclay

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Al Gore, the former vice-president of the United States, lives in a mansion that uses more electricity than the average familys bungalow! David Suzuki rides on a bus that uses more fuel than a Smart car to get across Canada! Oh my God! And this is just the tip of the vanishing iceberg! – Linwood Barclay

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Switching over to a hybrid car is one of those right things, but, unfairly or not, it still has a reputation among car enthusiasts as something you have to pedal really fast when youre on the ramp merging into traffic on the 401. – Linwood Barclay

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Everyone by now presumably knows about the danger of premature optimization. I think we should be just as worried about premature design – designing too early what a program should do. – Paul Graham

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