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Revision as of 04:08, 21 February 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 every time I watch something that's merely good enough destroy something that's excellent, I die a little inside.
Here is a related rant about how to judge the goodness of things.
todo: lots more work to do on this page