And some "Western" wisdom:

"A good plan today is better than a perfect plan tomorrow."
General George S. Patton

Dario Greggio wrote:
> Xiaofan Chen wrote:
>> My father (a maths teacher) told me life is about to get the optimal
>> solution and not necessary the best solution. Sometime a suboptimal
>> solution is also accepted as the optimal solution at that time.
> 
> Nice one!
> I would probably classify it as "Chinese Wisdom" since I'm sure I 
> already saw it somewhere :)
> 
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