When things go wrong, the standard management strategy is to decide who takes the blame. This should be an underling, as far down the chain as possib… - Jack McDevitt

Decisions are always made with insufficient information. If you really knew what was going on, the decision would make itself.

He was usually easygoing, one of those guys with little respect for authority because of a conviction that people in charge tend to do stupid things.

We can create the appearance of knowledge, the illusion of knowing how to grapple with a problem. Far too many educational systems have done exactly that. The result is generations of mouthpieces who can pour forth approved responses to programmed stimuli that contribute nothing to rational discussion. Dogma is for those who only wish to be comfortable. Catechisms are for cowards; commandments, for control freaks who have so little respect for their species that they are driven to appeal to a higher power to keep everyone in line.