> "You know, the whole thing about perfectionism.. perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you
never do anything. Because doing anything results in— it's actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is." -- David Foster Wallace
I like this quote a lot. There's something about actually instantiating what's in our head into the world that always seems to result in some kind of fundamental loss of fidelity. But at the same time, that's kind of what makes things beautiful, in a wabi-sabi "there is a crack in everything" kind of way.
> "You know, the whole thing about perfectionism.. perfectionism is very dangerous, because of course if your fidelity to perfectionism is too high, you never do anything. Because doing anything results in— it's actually kind of tragic because it means you sacrifice how gorgeous and perfect it is in your head for what it really is." -- David Foster Wallace