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A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . https://www.goodreads.com/quotes/353571-a-foolish-consistency-is-the-hobgoblin-of-little-minds-ado

• lsofzz 6y ago
  > A foolish consistency is the hobgoblin of little minds . . . Didn't quite get the connection here. Care to elaborate? :)
  • TuringTest 6y ago
    In the context of comp-sci, I'd say it applies to requiring a Strict Serializable consistency model merely because it's easier to reason about it, even if some other model would be a better fit to the problem at hand. Double plus if you use that model because you don't know of the existence of the others.
• gumby 6y ago
  What I thought of immediately! In the 70s and 80s it was not uncommon to run across a CS paper whose title was a play on some aphorism or poetic quotation. That playfulness is much less common these days.