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Quote: Perfect Is the Enemy Of Good

Submitted by Jeremy
on May 16, 2008 - 10:00am

"You really need to realize that reality is messy, and things cannot be pefect. You also need to realize and *understand* that aiming for 'good' is actually much BETTER than trying to aim for 'perfect'. Perfect is the enemy of good."

Yeah...i think so...things

stylincode21 (not verified)
on
May 18, 2008 - 8:10am

Yeah...i think so...things can't be done perfectly..there is always better way...

AFAICT this is an old

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 17, 2008 - 12:12am

AFAICT this is an old saying? Or is it only an old saying in Engineering in Brazil? :-o

yes, but this just "outro"

olecom
on
May 17, 2008 - 3:16am

yes, but this just "outro" from the conversation context.

somebody tell this to the

Anonymous (not verified)
on
May 16, 2008 - 3:48pm

somebody tell this to the linux process scheduler programmers please...

reality is messy

olecom
on
May 16, 2008 - 1:19pm

> You really need to realize that reality is messy, and things cannot be pefect.

I cannot think of more messy reality than linux-2.6/include/linux/