He does actually say "The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right

He does actually say "The lesson to be learned from this is that it is often undesirable to go for the right thing first. It is better to get half of the right thing available so that it spreads like a virus. Once people are hooked on it, take the time to improve it to 90% of the right thing." He's explicitly blessing the worse approach up front to get something working that then gets accepted and improved. It's ultimately a bird-in-the-hand argument.