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Riff on this: When your product is a monkey reciting Shakespeare while standing on a box in Central Park, you don't start by building the box.

That's funny! I think I may have been guilty of box building a couple of times. Nice boxes... but still... no monkey.

Hahaha perfect analogy

This is one of those lines that sounds like it came from a book of quotations, but I can't seem to find any source beyond this post.

I've heard it as: It's like a dog riding a skateboard. It's not impressive how well it rides, it's impressive that it rides at all.

But I can't find the original source or anything.