"The persistent are attached to the goal. The obstinate are attached to their ideas about how to reach it.
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Obstinacy is a reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas. This is not identical with stupidity, but they're closely related."
IMO you see this rear its head all the time in the form of language wars. Many people who are entrenched in the belief that $LANG is the best way to build software well beyond the point where it is reasonable to do so. And it's kind of funny because a lot of them quote PG in their reasoning.
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Obstinacy is a reflexive resistance to changing one's ideas. This is not identical with stupidity, but they're closely related."
IMO you see this rear its head all the time in the form of language wars. Many people who are entrenched in the belief that $LANG is the best way to build software well beyond the point where it is reasonable to do so. And it's kind of funny because a lot of them quote PG in their reasoning.