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Originally Posted by wodin
Or as immortalized in that old Klingon proverb "The perfect is the enemy of the good enough."
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I remember the notion that "Rational men satisfice" from a MIT Press text used in a course I took many years ago. It stuck with me. Here's a link to the text today
http://www.amazon.com/Applied-Statis.../dp/047138349X
More on satisficing:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Satisficing
At the time (well before Gore invented the internet) it was referred to as the excellent but expensive Wiley Series. I still have the original MIT Press text. The hardback was expensive for a graduate student at the time but certainly not $106, the cost of the Wiley Series paperback today.
fjtorres Thank you for the clarification/expansion on the MS-IBM wars. Your memory and knowledge exceed mine.