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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 every time I watch something that's merely ''good enough'' destroy something that's ''excellent'', I die a little inside.


A [[absolute vs relative scale|related rant]].
Here is a related opinion about two different ways to judge the goodness of things, which I call [[Absolute vs Relative Scale]].


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Latest revision as of 23:14, 17 April 2009

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 every time I watch something that's merely good enough destroy something that's excellent, I die a little inside.

Here is a related opinion about two different ways to judge the goodness of things, which I call Absolute vs Relative Scale.

This page was last edited on 17 April 2009, at 23:14.