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What is the shortest and generally most useful bit of wisdom you know?
- kls 16y agoMy grandfather always said that "you cannot polish a turd". I really never understood it coming from him as he was a perfectionist and a very good engineer. It seemed like such a nihilistic statement from a man that could fix or design anything and always had a we can fix this attitude. It was not till I was older that I realized the true meaning of the statment. He was basically saying you do what you have to do to get something working. If it is bad then you patch it until you can replace it with something better. And that trying to start from bad to get to good was not the best path but rather make the bad passable until, it can be totally replaced with good. In my experience this has held true. Trying to make something that is poorly built good is far more time consuming than shoring it up and then replacing it with a better solution.