Perfection Is Afterthought, Perfect Examples Say
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Athletes with flawless achievements say making history will not be on the New England Patriotsâ minds Sunday.
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Life & style: Gallery:  Don't underestimate the power of these little shiny details.
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Edgar Degas, whose paintings of ballerinas made him a household name after his death in 1917, was a perfectionist who continually tinkered with his works -- even after he had sold them.
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Psychologists once conducted a simple experiment with far-reaching implications: They asked people to describe an instance in their lives when they had hurt someone and another instance when they had been hurt by someone else. The incidents that people described were similar whether they saw...
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Phoenix's undefeated run through the East ended one game short of perfection. Don't make the mistake of believing Shaquille O'Neal's days of dominance are over, too.
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This book attempts to demolish the notion that ''new is better.&quot; For the most part, it succeeds. Sergio Zyman and coauthor Armin A. Brott build a solid foundation for their argument that innovation can be disastrous for the bottom line. Innovation is like a sugar high, they say -- a quick fix that just doesn't work.
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Some habits aren't meant to be broken.
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The deep thinkers are at it again. They are pondering. They are studying. They are working overtime to solve a problem that can not be fixed.
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The best companies are the ones you think.
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They were flawless for a month of Sundays, beating back opponents and, really, conventional wisdom itself. The New England Patriots had become football&#39;s sterling exception
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I distrust perfection, so when I finally got my hands on an Apple iPhone, the sheer delight of the experience made me nervous. Yes, I know what I wrote just over a week ago: "The iPhone is exactly as cool as you've heard, and then some," and I meant it. But I'd been given a mere half-hour of play time ...
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It is easier to optimize correct code, than correct optimized code.--Yves Deville
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THE MARK of brilliance is to produce the unexpected. The proof of genius is to do it time and again. Thierry Henry is a brilliant genius.
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In these times of financial wrongdoing and subsequent systemic changes, it's only natural to wonder what a perfect investment world would look like.
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A recent behavioral study demonstrated that animals understand and react to the concept of fairness. In the study, monkeys were given unequal rewards for completing equal tasks.
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Zeno of Elea famously postulated his many paradoxes in defence of Parmenides' worldview: that all is "oneness," and pluralism is merely an illusion.    Of his forty paradoxes, the four most enduring have fascinated philosophers, mathematicians, and regular pundits for millennia.    As one of the many pundits ensnared by Zeno's challenges, I will present my own analysis of arguably his most famous paradox of all: The race between Achilles and the tortoise.
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We&#39;re all taught in elementary school a universal principle: &quot;Two wrongs don&#39;t make a right.&quot;. What happened in the NBA game between the Detroit Pistons and the Indiana Pacers is a perfect example of how true that principle is.