One thing I’ve learnt

If someone says they have the answer to a complicated problem, but can’t or won’t admit that they might be wrong, then they almost certainly don’t and they almost certainly are.

November 28th 2005 | | Asides on


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  1. dan
    November 30th, 2005 | 1:40 pm

    Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.

    - Henry Louis Mencken

    And a corollary with Wiio’s law http://www.cs.tut.fi/~jkorpela/wiio.html

  2. Piers
    November 30th, 2005 | 2:27 pm

    Thanks for the Wiio’s law link. Hadn’t seen them before - thought they were great!

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