On Fri, 2004-04-23 at 23:11, Joseph Dal Molin wrote:
> To add to David's and Wayne's perspectives and borrowing a quote from
> another colleague with a slight edit from me:
> 
> "the perfect is often the enemy of the good [enough]"

Apparent there is some debate whether it was von Clausewitz or Voltaire
("le mieux est 1'ennemi du bien") who said it first.

The following sentiments from "The Zen of Python" by Tim Peters serve as
a useful corollary:

Now is better than never.
Although never is often better than *right* now.

-- 

Tim C

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