> This attitude is a losing one. For all its warts, bumps, pains and bugs, programming today works somewhat decently enough. Sometimes pragmatism is the enemy

> This attitude is a losing one. For all its warts, bumps, pains and bugs, programming today works somewhat decently enough. Sometimes pragmatism is the enemy of progress. As stated earlier in the article, you don't get the combustion engine by thinking how we can make horse drawn carriages faster. Thiel also recommends this approach in Zero to One.