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For a while now I’ve been searching for a good way to explain why I prefer writing it myself than use an already made library. Unless the library is very good I would rather write something from scratch.

Joel Spolsky, from joelonsoftware.com says:

When you’re working on a really, really good team with great programmers, everybody else’s code, frankly, is bug-infested garbage, and nobody else knows how to ship on time. When you’re a cordon bleu chef and you need fresh lavender, you grow it yourself instead of buying it in the farmers’ market, because sometimes they don’t have fresh lavender or they have old lavender which they pass off as fresh.

(from this article and recently quoted by himself here.)