John Kenneth Galbraith

1908–2006 · Canadian-American economist and diplomat

Topics: simplicity, complexity, engineering leadership, learning

• Faced with the choice between changing one's mind and proving that there is no need to do so, almost everyone gets busy on the proof.

  — John Kenneth Galbraith

• Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

  — John Kenneth Galbraith

• Meetings are a great trap. … they are indispensable when you don't want to do anything.

  — John Kenneth Galbraith

• When you see reference to a new paradigm you should always, under all circumstances, take cover.

  — John Kenneth Galbraith