Mar 18, 2014

Platt quote

Beware of the man of one method or one instrument, either experimental or theoretical. He tends to become method-oriented rather than problem oriented. The method-oriented man is shackled: the problem-oriented man is at least reaching freely toward what is most important.
                                                   
                                                          John R. Platt (1963)

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