key question

[David Shaw]

On Feb 28, 2010, at 4:20 PM, reynt0 wrote:

> On Sat, 27 Feb 2010, Robert J. Hansen wrote:
> . . .
>> The perfect is the enemy of the good.
> 
> Just to note, did RJH actually intend to write
> "...the enemy of the good enough.", which I believe is
> the usual quote?  The two are rather different ideas,
> even more so if morality has been included as an aspect
> of the discussion.

Voltaire.  "Le mieux est l'ennemi du bien".  Rob's translation is as good as any I've seen.

David