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As G.K. Chesterton said: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly." https://www.chesterton.org/a-thing-worth-doing/ https://www.chesterton.org/a-thi
by apocalypstyx 8y ago
As G.K. Chesterton said: "If a thing is worth doing, it is worth doing badly."
https://www.chesterton.org/a-thing-worth-doing/ https://www.chesterton.org/a-thing-worth-doing/
- hypertexthero 8y agoAlex Martelli quoted this in his “Good Enough” is Good Enough! talk at EuroPython some years ago: https://lwn.net/Articles/557406/ https://lwn.net/Articles/557406/ https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/europython-2013-notes/#goodenough https://www.simongriffee.com/notebook/europython-2013-notes/...
- hammock 8y agoThat is not so much praise of mediocrity, moreso praise of excellent strategy (which will result in positive outcome no matter how it is executed).
- reaperducer 8y agoI used to work with a guy who would say, "It's better than good; it's done." I don't know if that was his original, but I haven't heard it anywhere else.
- 0xdeadbeefbabe 8y agoIt sounds like Horace.
- ggm 8y ago"I don't want it perfect, I want it by Thursday" -- J. Pierpont Morgan
- laichzeit0 8y agoI've heard something similar that goes "Done is better than perfect." While doing my Master's dissertation this has never rang more true and gives me great solace.
- brian_cunnie 8y agoThe two sports I love, rugby and open water swimming, share a common trait: I do them badly. Don't get me wrong -- I wish I did them well -- but I don't. When I was younger I fenced, but I was ambitious, and wanted to be a better fencer, so I worked out in a gym, had regular lessons from my coach, went to competitions. And somewhere along the line it transformed from being fun to being work. And then I stopped fencing. These days I try my best to accept not being very good.