“There is no greater bore than perfection.”

— Richard Connell, book The Most Dangerous Game

Source: The Most Dangerous Game

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American author and journalist 1893–1949

Curtis Sittenfeld (1975) Novelist, short story writer

Source: American Wife

“Perfect order is boring, perfect randomness is boring, but complex systems are interesting.”

David Orrell (1962) Canadian mathematician

Source: The Other Side Of The Coin (2008), Chapter 4, Right Versus Left, p. 131

“The capacity of human beings to bore one another seems to be vastly greater than that of any other animal.”

H.L. Mencken (1880–1956) American journalist and writer

“Peace demands the most heroic labor and the most difficult sacrifice. It demands greater heroism than war. It demands greater fidelity to the truth and a much more perfect purity of conscience.”

Thomas Merton (1915–1968) Priest and author

“But still his tongue ran on, the less
Of weight it bore, with greater ease.”

Samuel Butler (poet) (1612–1680) poet and satirist

Canto II, line 443
Source: Hudibras, Part III (1678)

“The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control.”

Starhawk (1951) American author, activist and Neopagan

The Spiral Dance: A Rebirth of the Ancient Religion of the Goddess (1979)
Context: The Trickster represents the quality of randomness and chance in the universe, without which there could be no freedom. In the Craft the Goddess is not omnipotent. The cosmos is interesting rather than perfect, and everything is not part of some greater plan, nor is all necessarily under control. Understanding this keeps us humble, able to admit that we cannot know or control or define everything. <!-- p. 231

“I abhor the idea of a perfect world. It would bore me to tears.”

Shelby Foote (1916–2005) Novelist, historian

“The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.”

Robert Hughes (1938–2012) Australian critic, historian, writer

"Modernism's Patriarch (Cezanne)", Time Magazine, June 10, 1996
Time Magazine (1996)