mo@messy.bellcore.com (Michael O'Dell) (08/28/90)
There is a REALLY good reason why XDR and Courier look similar... Duff's law: Don't waste time having good ideas when you can steal better ones! -Mike
forsyth@minster.york.ac.uk (08/30/90)
In <26228@bellcore.bellcore.com> Mike O'Dell writes: >There is a REALLY good reason why XDR and Courier look similar... > >Duff's law: > Don't waste time having good ideas when you can steal better ones! > > -Mike True enough, but surely the key words are `good' and `better'! You must seek the source of, and distil, the `better ideas' from the model, not blindly copy all the bad ideas too. (`Consult the genius of the place in all') Failing that, you must at least make a good job of the theft!
cpw%snow-white@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood) (08/31/90)
>>Duff's law: >> Don't waste time having good ideas when you can steal better ones! > True enough, but surely the key words are `good' and `better'! And who was it that said: "'Better' is the enemy of 'good'." Phil
ken@animal.csd.scarolina.edu (Ken Sallenger) (09/08/90)
In article <9008311403.AA24690@snow-white.lanl.gov> cpw%snow-white@LANL.GOV (C. Philip Wood) writes:
=> > True enough, but surely the key words are `good' and `better'!
=>
=> And who was it that said:
=>
=> "'Better' is the enemy of 'good'."
The good is the enemy of the best.
Bill Wilson, circa 1938
Possibly quoting someone else...
Anyone know a definitive reference?
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