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Oddly, his enemy at UTexas is professor Perfect in the Mathematics department.

He's also well known in solid-state physics for the "Goodenough rules" [1] (more commonly called the Goodenough-Kanamori rules, but that has less of a ring to it).

[1] http://www.scholarpedia.org/article/Goodenough-Kanamori_rule

What's really astounding is reading that, and looking at the dates. He first formulated this rule in 1955. And he's still working and making real contributions!

We really need to work on greatly extending human lifespans, if for no other reason than to keep people like this alive.

Yeah, I noticed that too.

On the other hand, an engineer needs to know when to say "it's good enough" and release it. An invention in the hands of a perfectionist may never be released.

As a name for an inventor, it's good enough ;-).

In all seriousness, it's a wonderful step forward. Certainly for stationary situations it's a great leap forward.

I don't know about paradoxical. But we know he shipped tech that was good enough.

Reading his name at the beginning of the article made me check my calendar to see if it was already April 1st.

Well, he does still use Windows XP. I guess that's good enough for him.