<VV> Good quote for the day! - A bit of Corvair

[Sethracer at aol.com]

"Striving for excellence motivates you; striving for perfection  is 
demoralizing."


--Harriet Braiker,
American psychologist and  writer
 
Also expressed as: "Better" is the enemy of "good-enough".
 
It has often struck me, as I have worked on my Corvairs, and my  other 
cars, that there are things that could have been built better than they  were 
actually assembled and delivered. But then I look at my own projects  and note 
that, the planning and incorporation of new ideas can often  cause a 
project to drag on and on, and not get completed! There is a famous  cartoon that 
has been posted on the wall of many a Manufacturing office. It  shows an 
older Engineering design/Mechanical drawing table, with a dead engineer  
sprawled across it, and a man standing behind him with a smoking gun. The  caption 
says:
 
 "There comes a time when you have to shoot the engineers  and begin 
production!"  
 
At some point, Ed Cole must have walked into the Chevy  Engineering 
offices, shot the engineers (Virtually, of course!) and ordered the  1960 Corvair 
into production.
 
Seth Emerson - former Manufacturing engineer