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Re: A long strange trip
- Date: Tue, 24 Dec 1996 21:54:23 -0800 (PST)
- From: thomst@netcom.com (Thom Stark)
- Subject: Re: A long strange trip
David Collier-Brown misquoted:
> To quote the proverb,
>
> For every hard question there is at least one answer which
> us clear, obvious, compelling.... and wrong.
I believe you are misquoting what is known as Grossman's Misquote:
"Complex problems have simple, easy to understand wrong answers."
Or, perhaps you had in mind Mencken's Metalaw:
"For every human problem, there is a neat, simple solution; and it
is always wrong."
Either way..
Regards,
Thom Stark
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