Cleaning anything involves making something else dirty, but anything can get dirty without something else getting clean.
About this quote
- What does it mean?
- Cleaning creates mess elsewhere, but messes occur without cleaning.
- In plain terms
- Moving dirt around creates new dirt, but dirt exists on its own.
- What can you take from it?
- Efforts to fix one thing often cause issues elsewhere.
Where it applies
Putting it to work
Questions to consider
- Where does fixing things break other things?
- What is a tradeoff you accept?
Another view
Some cleaning genuinely removes dirt.
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