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Quote: Perfect Is the Enemy Of Good

May 16, 2008 - 10:00am
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."

— Linus Torvalds, in a May 2nd, 2008 message on the Linux kernel mailing list.

reality is messy

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/

somebody tell this to the

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

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

AFAICT this is an old

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

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

yes, but this just "outro"

May 17, 2008 - 3:16am

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

Yeah...i think so...things

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

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

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