On Fri, 27 May 2005, Howard Winter wrote:

>> The "perfect product" will be a lot more expensive than a "satisfactory product".
>>
>> Economics drive a lot of decisions.
>
> Indeed, but I've found timescales do so even more.
>
> "I don't want it good, I want it Tuesday" is a joke that has a lot of reality behind it!

I heard about the one 'I want it good, I want it now, and we'll pay you 
later'. Also 'you must achieve 100% yield' (over tens of items), said by 
an engineer (I haven't seen his credentials though). Not funny.

Peter
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