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That should be a lesson in whether "the best" consider it important to every last thing 100% right, or to move quickly and maybe make a small number of mistakes along the way.

http://www.jwz.org/doc/worse-is-better.html

"It is slightly better to be simple than correct."

Well, they've certainly got "simply not correct" nailed.

I would have said being correct AND simple would be ideal. I think in the case of the bug mentioned above, we have a case of neither attribute.

a different "view" would be the 80/20 rule: it takes 80% effort to make the last 20% right.

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