"For every complex problem there is an..." - Quote by H L Mencken
For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.
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“One smart reader is worth a thousand boneheads.”
“A newspaper is a device for making the ignorant more ignorant and the crazy crazier.”
“In my day a reporter who took an assignment was wholly on his own until he got back to the office, and even then he was little molested until his copy was turned in at the desk; today he tends to become only a homunculus at the end of a telephone wire, and the reduction of his observations to prose is commonly farmed out to literary castrati who never leave the office, and hence never feel the wind of the world in their faces or see anything with their own eyes.”
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“Some people give their problems swimming lessons instead of drowning them.”
“Among the illusions which have invested our civilization is an absolute belief that the solutions to our problems must be a more determined application of rationally organized expertise... The reality is that our problems are largely the product of that application.”
“Stop thinking, and end your problems.”