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Use only as instructed. WWW-Home-Page: https://www.FreeBSD X-PGP-Fingerprint: 9A1B 8202 BCCE B846 F92F 09AC 22E6 F290 507A 4223 --H1cXirCghYAFYZqU Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Disposition: inline Content-Transfer-Encoding: quoted-printable On Sunday, 17 March 2024 at 15:52:03 -0400, Lowell Gilbert wrote: > Greg 'groggy' Lehey writes: > >> "For every difficult problem there is an answer that is simple, >> elegant, and wrong". > > For the record, because this is one of my favorite quotes, I would like > to offer a traceable attribution of the phrase. It comes from > H.L. Mencken, who first wrote it in the New York Evening Mail in > 1917. ... > > "Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there > is always a well-known solution to every human problem =E2=80=94 > neat, plausible, and wrong." Thanks for that. > I haven't been able to dig up an original source for the version that > Greg Lehey quotes, (Re)created just for this message. As I said at the time, On Sunday, 17 March 2024 at 17:45:27 +1100, Greg 'groggy' Lehey wrote: > Yes, this is a very simple answer. It reminds me of a couple of > quotes, *but not well*: Note the "but not well". It was a paraphrase: I didn't think that I would need to supply references, but clearly I was wrong. It took a bit of searching, but at https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/H._L._Mencken I read a number of different formulations. Clearly Mencken liked the quote too. Greg -- When replying to this message, please copy the original recipients. If you don't, I may ignore the reply or reply to the original recipients. For more information, see http://www.lemis.com/questions.html Sent from my desktop computer. See complete headers for address and phone numbers. This message is digitally signed. 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