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“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.”
{{a|maxim|}}“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.”


Enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like that grow up to be? YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE.</ref> who, when writing postcards to his grandparents, addresses it thus:
Enough to satisfy most people other than [[lawyers]] and the kind of child<ref>And what do children like that grow up to be? YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE.</ref> who, when writing postcards to his grandparents, addresses it thus:

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“Perfection is the enemy of good enough.”

Enough to satisfy most people other than lawyers and the kind of child[1] who, when writing postcards to his grandparents, addresses it thus:

Grandma Contrarian,
24 Argumentative Road
Whingeing
Essex EX4 5FU
England
United Kingdom
The World,
The Solar System,
The Western Arm, Milky Way
The Local Group,
The Virgo Supercluster,
The Pisces–Cetus Supercluster Complex,
The Observable Universe,
The Whole Universe including the unseen bits including all forms of Dark Matter and/or Dark Energy,
The Multiverse[2]

If you like this you should try everything else Voltaire wrote while you’re at it. He’s a scream. Start with Candide.

See also

References

  1. ↑ And what do children like that grow up to be? YOU ARE LOOKING AT ONE.
  2. ↑ Ok I am making this up clearly the (preposterous) cosmological hypothetical on which this relies was not widely known in the 1970s and certainly wouldn't have been known to a seven year old,
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