Just like the presence of perfectionism and engineering doesn't mean that people are sitting on "unfinished" products for decades. Never mind that the US has so

Just like the presence of perfectionism and engineering doesn't mean that people are sitting on "unfinished" products for decades. Never mind that the US has some pretty awesome engineering itself and that the average quality of German startup software isn't any better. Basically, the speaker was just throwing some cliches into the room, whether they fit or not. He might as well have said that Germans don't get anything done because they spend so much time to listen to the Hoff.