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Quality over quantity

StormtroperStormtroper
edited 2011-02-10 18:10:53 in General
(I was thinking about making this thread since before the other was made, I swear.)

It bugs me that people always point this out as an ideal to aim for and all that, but nobody ever points out the opposite. They don't bother pointing out that cheap, quickly made things can be valuable even if they agree that replaceable components and zerglings are good. And they use this phrase as if quantity was always irrelevant, regardless of... well, quantity.

Well, there's that quote from Stalin, but...

Comments

  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    Indeed. The trick is figuring out how much quality can be produced in quantity.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Dollar store pencils or Gucchi Pencils? You decide.
  • DYREDYRE
    They make Gucchi pencils?
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    YES
  • ClockworkUniverseClockworkUniverse
    OOOooooOoOoOOoo, I'm a ghoOooOooOOOost!
    I don't think I've ever spent money on a pencil. I just sort of find them.
  • DYREDYRE
    The only time I've deliberately and knowingly spent money on pencils was when I was buying charcoal pencils for drawing class.  Regular pencils though, no.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    I stole regular pencils from a house I broke into. There were tons of boxes of them, for no reason. I put them in a little footstool chest and went home.
  • StormtroperStormtroper
    edited 2011-02-10 18:36:15
    "Sort of finding" pencils would work except I get them lost just as quickly. Or I lose my sharpeners.

    I've noticed the best mechanical pencils I've bought were cheapass.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    They are actually.
  • GelzoGelzo
    edited 2011-02-10 18:45:09
    Pony Sleuth
    The ideal that should be aimed for is "Maximize value."

    Is there a relatively quantifiable way to judge whether quantity surpasses quality in a given good? I guess you have to compare the ratio of the value and the number of units of goods to the average ratio for producers of similar goods.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    How many are wanted, and how good can they be?

    Having hundreds of badass motherfuckers is better than having one badass motherfucker or thousands of wankers.
  • GelzoGelzo
    Pony Sleuth
    Do you know what "quantifiable" means?

    Badassitude is not a quantifiable measure. It is a quality.
  • TnopheliaTnophelia
    Stop using words I have to google....>.<
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