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1 Post author: Dr_Manhattan 26 October 2011 02:57PM

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Comment author: dlthomas 26 October 2011 11:38:09PM 0 points [-]

It's a catchy saying. It may or may not be a good heuristic.

It certainly doesn't hold in every case.

It might have in this case.

Comment author: wedrifid 26 October 2011 11:45:11PM *  6 points [-]

It certainly doesn't hold in every case.

Which is why I explicitly went out of my way to modify the saying to 'this', sacrificing catchiness so it was clear to readers that I was not asserting “If a job is worth doing, it's worth doing well” as a general claim. Without success, it would seem.