Less important points don’t add to the communication. They detract from the most important point. That’s what the single-minded proposition is all ab… - Dave Trott

Enemy spies reported back to Germany that the reason they were losing so many bombers was the deadly ‘Cat’s Eyes’ Cunningham. And for a long while the Luftwaffe bought that story. They lost a lot of bombers to radar before they discovered the truth. Because a simple lie is often more powerful than a complicated truth.

According to the laws of aerodynamics the bumblebee can’t fly. But the bumblebee doesn’t know that, so it just carries on flying around.

As the economist J.M. Keynes said: “The difficulty lies not so much in developing new ideas, as in escaping from the old ones.