That's just a summary of an interpretation of the original (a copy of which he links to): https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/

That's just a summary of an interpretation of the original (a copy of which he links to): https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html https://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html (Be sure to copy-paste to avoid jwz's HN referer-trap) This line also appears just before that paragraph: > Of course, worse is better is a much catchier slogan than better depends on your goodness metric Ultimately, this seems to be applicable even to this discussion, where one goodness metric is "correctness" and another goodness metric is "expediency". In the original essay, it's simplicity of implementation rather than expediency, but I'm not sure that's all that huge a conceptual difference here (other than for the purposes of a slippery slope argument).