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I'm an idealist at heart and a [[perfectionist]] in practice, and I die a little inside every time something that's good-enough destroys something that's excellent. | I'm an idealist at heart and a [[perfectionist]] in practice, and I die a little inside every time something that's good-enough destroys something that's excellent. | ||
Here is a [[Absolute vs Relative Scale|related rant]]. | |||
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Revision as of 06:53, 20 January 2007
Voltaire said, "The best is the enemy of the good."
John Miles rephrased it for the Direct3D/OpenGL battles back in 1996 or so, and I like his version even better:
The good-enough is the enemy of the excellent.
I'm an idealist at heart and a perfectionist in practice, and I die a little inside every time something that's good-enough destroys something that's excellent.
Here is a related rant.