Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise

I am currently reviewing the first draft of Gojko Adzic‘s book Agile Acceptance Testing (I am still at the beginning, but I like it so far). He has a citation from Bertrand Arthur Russell’s Philosophy of Logical Atomism that is just too good not to pass around:

Everything is vague to a degree you do not realise till you have tried to make it precise

With this, I leave you to meditate. ;-)

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