---
title: "We will not ship s#!*t"
url: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/16/we-will-not-ship-st.md"
canonical: "https://osherove.com/blog/2003/7/16/we-will-not-ship-st.html"
published: "2003-07-16T04:59:00"
updated: "2003-07-16T04:59:00"
tags: [".Net Quotations"]
author: "Roy Osherove"
description: "\" We will not ship shit : words by Robert C. Martin.\" - posted by Lawrence @ 7/15/2003 11:55:25 AM"
usage: "Licensed under CC BY 4.0 — reuse, quote and adapt with attribution (Roy Osherove, link to the original page)."
license: "https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/"
---

# We will not ship s\#!\*t

By Roy Osherove July 16, 2003 In [.Net Quotations](https://osherove.com/blog/category/net-quotations)

**Historical article** · Originally published July 16, 2003; technical details may be outdated.

_"_[_We will not ship shit_](http://www.artima.com/weblogs/viewpost.jsp?thread=7588)_: words by Robert C. Martin."_
\- posted by [Lawrence](http://loluyede.blogspot.com/) [](http://loluyede.blogspot.com/)@ [7/15/2003 11:55:25 AM](http://loluyede.blogspot.com/2003_07_01_loluyede_archive.html#105829532554607506)

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## About the author

**Roy Osherove**: Senior Solutions Architect at AWS working on AI for production and AI-driven development; author of The Art of Unit Testing and Elastic Leadership, with about 20 years of consulting and training on unit testing, TDD, team leadership and continuous delivery.

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