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I'm an idealist at heart and a [[perfectionist]] in practice, and | 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]]. | |||
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Latest revision as of 22:14, 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.