The most profound lesson in software process is that many of the gating processes we erect to prevent errors do the opposite: deferring code merges does not make the merge easier, deferring deploys does not make the releases safer, deferring security audits does not make the system more secure, deferring unit testing does not make writing the initial code easier, and deferring delivery of features to perform more analysis does not reliably make those features more successful.
Brian Guthrie's Move Faster Manifesto is full of quotables, but the above especially resonated with me and echoes my experience leading RAI at Indeed.