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by Itaxpica 3132 days ago
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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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]