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

[HallGrenn at aol.com]

..............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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