But, as they say, we can't make the perfect the enemy of the good.
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It just doesn't pay to be an enemy of the open source movement these days.
To ignore these successes is to make the perfect an enemy of the excellent.
The White House complains that the left is making the best the enemy of the good.
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How can a legislator be effective if he allows the perfect to be the enemy of the good?
Unfortunately we have verified once more the validity of that saying: "The best is the enemy of the good!"
But I think the administration is not going to make the perfect the enemy of the really, really good.
The government is reluctant to make an enemy of the traditional rural community.
An alien bug that causes diarrhoea, for instance, is as much an enemy of the microbiome as of the host.
Government supporters took to the streets in Tunis on Saturday to paint the UGTT as an enemy of the revolution.
To watch "Last Boy Scout, " "Crimson Tide, " "Enemy of the State, " "Pelham" and "Unstoppable" is to feel pressed for time.
But so far there have been few accusations of that nature, so why make the perfect the enemy of the good?
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Eco-elitists seize upon this dogma to argue that economic growth, promulgated by spurious corporate interests, is the enemy of the environment.
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It's fine to look for ways to improve the measuring tools, but don't let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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And if this delicate negotiation falls through because reformers made the perfect the enemy of the good, what's behind Door No. 2?
And we cannot let the perfect be the enemy of the good.
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The perfect answer is always the enemy of the good enough one.
But when it comes to addressing our health care challenge, we can no longer let the perfect be the enemy of the essential.
Why was Indira Gandhi, daughter of a committed enemy of the British empire, welcomed by such establishment institutions as Badminton school and Oxford?
They now worry that he will be able to use Mr Buchanan, another old enemy of the Bushes, to rob them of their prize again.
Salt, the latest ingredient on the hit lists of many nutritionists, has been dubbed an enemy of the people by the Big Apple's city hall.
"France is virtually an enemy of the United States, " it said.
Like Orwell, Mr. Ferguson was a sworn enemy of the pretentious, and he wrote in a casual, slangy "spoken" style well suited to his preferred topics.
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For sure, governments are famously skittish about appearing to condone smoking, but this may be a case where the perfect is the enemy of the good.
If the bowling ball is the implacable enemy of the egg, guerrilla marketing is the implacable enemy of all the assumptions that pass for business as usual.
Modern financial theory is the enemy of the active manager.
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Mr Johnson, an economist, is no enemy of the market.
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