I want to risk hitting my head on the ceiling of my talent. I want to really test it out and say, ‘Okay, you're not that good. You just reached the level here.’ I don't ever want to fail, but I want to risk failure every time out of the gate.
-Quentin Tarantino
How to produce a software product quickly
Jeffrey Palermo wrote an excellent three part piece on how to speed up development. Well worth the read.