May 11th, 2008, 1:37 pm

Thought for the Week

Am I trying to solve a problem with a formula more complicated than the problem itself?

This originally comes from Thoreau’s Walden (1854), via an opinion piece by Verlyn Klinkenborg published last week titled, The Cost of Smarts..


One Comment

  1. Louise :

    That article is great — seeing intelligence as a means to an end.

    I think there’s a similar theme in the science fiction novel “Ender’s Game” by Orson Scott Card.

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