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		001sky on April 10, 2014 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Knuth: Open Letter to Condoleezza Rice (2002) Better to be inconsistently principled than consistently unprincipled. That's some Jim Crow logic right there. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Crow_laws Or perhaps its just psychopathy: http://www.telegraph.co.uk/culture/books/10737827/Psychopath...

001sky on April 10, 2014 [–]

Or, maybe you just got your quote wrong?

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfect_is_the_enemy_of_good

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