[toomuchtodo]

"You can always count on Americans to do the right thing - after they've tried everything else." -- Winston Churchill

[jessaustin]

I think that was meant mostly as a compliment. Both trying everything and doing the right thing are rare enough behaviors, even by themselves. We should strive to be as good as we were, when he said that.

[toomuchtodo]

I didn't get that from the post, but thank you for helping me see a different perspective.

[TeMPOraL]

From an algorithmic point of view, you could rephrase it as "You can always count on Americans to pick the optimal solution by brute-forcing through the entire search space".