On too-simple solutions

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Author

Matthew Brett

Published

March 4, 2021

Here are two quotes about giving solutions when you don’t understand the problem:

… there is always a well-known solution to every human problem — neat, plausible, and wrong.

Book of Prejudices, Second Series, by H. L. Mencken, 1921.

… advice, tinged with the reckless courage of the non-combatant.

Chronicles of Clovis, by H. H. Munro (“Saki”), 1912