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Comment by jgw | Hacker News Reader

I really like:

  "A bad arrangement is better than a process."

I might surreptitiously slip that into the next coding style guide I come across.

In portuguese, processo is the word for both "process" and "lawsuit".

Translating back to Portuguese could be "alum mau arranjo é melhor que um processo".

Which can be translated to "

The rest of your comment got lost as a duplicate; just to make sure other people see it, what you wrote below was this:

> ... "um mau arranjo é melhor que um processo".

> Which can be translated to "a bad deal is still better than a lawsuit".

> Oh so Portuguese...

Or, "a bad settlement is better than a good trial."

:) There's this spanish curse: "May you have lawsuits and win'em..." > "Tengas pleitos y los ganes".

Indeed, you could even cite the source, and see if anybody bothers to look it up.