<VV> Good quote for the day! - A bit of Corvair
HallGrenn at aol.com
HallGrenn at aol.com
Thu Jun 14 18:22:52 EDT 2012
..............looking back on what the automobile market offered in the
'60s I'd say our Corvairs were, in every model year, "better than the
rest.............."
Bob
In a message dated 6/14/2012 11:17:33 A.M. Eastern Daylight Time,
Sethracer at aol.com writes:
"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
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