Friday, July 15, 2011

Law of the Academy #25

For every reason there is for the department to take some proposed action, there is at least one reason, equal or better in force, which favors doing absolutely nothing.


(aka Cornford's Law)

2 comments:

Glaucon said...

Hence the Chinatown Principle: "... as little as possible."

Anonymous said...

Best (only?) use of Cornford on a blog post.