Give me a condor’s quill! Give me Vesuvius’ crater for an inkstand! Friends, hold my arms! For in the mere act of penning my thoughts of this Leviathan, they weary me, and make me faint with their outreaching comprehensiveness of sweep.
—Herman Melville, Moby Dick
Drawing on my fine command of the English language, I said nothing.
—Robert Benchley
Meet the Razor
Whales, my friends, have a lot of blubber. If you’re going to do battle with a leviathan, you’ll have to trim some whale fat. Law of nature, sorry.
The Razor is the enforcer of bureaucratic parsimony. It’s wielded by us, Knights of Occam, the bureaucratic equivalent to Six Sigma Black ...
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