When you refactor during a change, you make the change bigger.

When you refactor before the change, you make the change smaller.

- in a talk by Jason Swett

@jessitron related Kent Beck:

“make the change easy, then make the easy change”

https://twitter.com/KentBeck/status/250733358307500032

Kent Beck 🌻 on Twitter

“for each desired change, make the change easy (warning: this may be hard), then make the easy change”

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