Great software today is often preferable to perfect…

Most software today is very much like an Egyptian pyramid with millions of bricks piled on top of each other, with no structural integrity,…

— Alan Kay

Miseram pacem vel bello bene mutari. Even war is preferable to a shameful peace.

— Tacitus

“It's preferable to die than to lose the life.”

— Frei Tito de Alencar Lima

“The devil you knew was always preferable to the devil you didn't.”

— Stephen King

“Some natural disasters were preferable to the sorts that people could wreak upon each other.”

— Mark Lawrence

Delay is preferable to error.

— Thomas Jefferson

“I pull out the blue spool of thread and the sharp needle I always keep in the left pocket of my dress--because old seams…

— Shea Ernshaw

God grants us not always what we ask so as to bestow something preferable.

— Anonymous

I don't really differentiate between different genres: if there's a good part going, I'll go after it, and it's preferable to me if it's…

— Aidan Gillen

Pain is always preferable to numbness.

— Scott Anderson

In Britain, the major public holiday used to be Guy Fawkes Day... that was celebrated on November 5th with things like bonfires and fireworks...…

— Lisa Morton

The fact that the talk may be boring or turgid or uninspiring should not cause us to forget the fact that it is preferable…

— Henry Cabot Lodge, Jr

Childhood doesn't have to be perfect, and children don't have to be beautiful. From a bit of grit may grow a pearl, and if…

— Laurie Graham

“Revolution from above, in some states and cases, is [...] often preferable to the status quo, or to no revolution at all.”

— Christopher Hitchens

It is preferable not to travel with a dead man.

— Henri Michaux