On Sun, 28 Feb 2010, David Shaw wrote:
On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:20 PM, reynt0 wrote:
On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
. . .
The perfect is the enemy of the good.
Just to note, did RJH actually intend to write
"...the enemy of the good enough.", which I believe is
the usual quote? The two are rather different ideas,
even more so if morality has been included as an aspect
of the discussion.
Voltaire. "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien". Rob's translation is as
good as any I've seen.
I would understood the Voltaire as a comment about people
who use betterment (cf "Progress") as justification for
change, but I see your point. What I was thinking of was
the "Worse is Better" theme, cf
http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html and
http://dreamsongs.com/WorseIsBetter.html .
And FWIW, to be thorough, I'll toss in:
http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Voltaire and
http://fr.wikisource.org/wiki/La_B%C3%A9gueule :-)
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