Jan 16 2009

Oversimplify the problem and choose a misleading name

Published by Dougal at 8:48 am under Humour, Maths & Computer Science, Programming, Society

The blind man at the back takes firm hold of the tail and says:

But why do we need to call it an elephant? No-one knows what that is. Everyone knows what a rope is, so we should just call it a rope.

And that is how the elephant came to be labelled a rope in all the guide books.

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