Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 20, 2023

Channeling the late, great Yankees catcher, Yogi Berra?

“Berra At The Barber,” his AFLAC commercial:

https://youtu.be/VS83HdpzxDU

Learn from your mistakes!

It’s obvious Mrs Olsen!!

One software thumb-rule (there are hundreds) is “Plan to throw the first one away.” Because an application and the people who use it are ALWAYS more difficult and less straight forward than you imagine. So you build a test application and let the users complain and suggest and admire (VERY occasionally) while taking notes. And similarly, notice which parts of the code are bug-nurseries and which are robust. THEN you can build one that works reasonably well.

Different assumptions?

Is she confused because she used a malaprop or because she’s agreeing with Caulfield?

Engineering and design progress.

A good example of the “dopeler effect” (not Doppler), where something may sound when it comes at you fast, but you see how dumb it is when you slow it down.

Either way, you can’t retake the test.

My favorite was by columnist, Sidney Harris: “Something that’s not worth doing, is not worth doing well.”

There’s never enough time to do it right, but there’s always enough time to do it over.

A wise man once said, if something’s really worth doing, it’s worth doing… badly….

“If it’s worth doing, it’s worth doing well… enough for the purpose at hand. Making it better than that is wasted effort.”

I heard that decades ago, but can’t recall who originated it.

Why do it right when you can do it again?

“Seems we never have time to do things right, but we always have time to do them over.”

You’ve got to leave for a date in 5 minutes, not enuf time to shower, so I guess the principle here is don’t bother doing a half-vast job by just swabbing on some deodorant; go as you are, knowing that your date probably subscribes to the same principle of “perfection or nothing”.

If something is worth doing, doing a half-assed job is better than not doing it at all.

Chesterton says a thing worth doing is worth doing badly, meaning you gotta practice to improve.