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Is there a corollary to this quote? Something about how you have a problem that can be solved optimally with a drill and adequately with a hammer, so you decide to choose the hammer because you're already pretty decent with one and you've never really used a drill. So even though you're not using the optimal tool, you've gotten the job done and moved on to the next one while you'd still be learning the drill. Is there something like that?




Should we start? "Arm yourself with a quote and every coffee looks like a mic"? "Scalpels don't plant nails easily"? "If we had all those tools, we wouldn't be working here"?


"The best is the enemy of the good."

Dans ses écrits, un sage Italien

Dit que le mieux est l'ennemi du bien.

~~Voltaire

http://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/Perfection


Don't let perfect be the enemy of good.


Good enough is




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