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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by Itaxpica on Friday November 17, 2017 @05:42AM (#15720859)
A comparable English expression is “the perfect is the enemy of the good”, which I think every software engineer should have engraved on to their monitors as a reminder.
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Re:Ask HN: What tech were you convinced would take the world... by pbhjpbhj on Friday November 17, 2017 @08:34AM (#15721811)
A slightly different twist, but also a popular idiom, is that "excellence is good enough".

[I'm frantically resisting the urge to redraft that sentence]

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