He had but to speak He had but to speak aloud the words that came into his head, and those around him would fall in line. Shane Carruth, Primer wordscommunicationpersuasion
The McNamara fallacy A Definition en.wikipedia.org The McNamara fallacy, named for Robert McNamara, the US Secretary of Defense from 1961 to 1968, involves making a decision based solely on quantitative observations (or metrics) and ignoring all others. The reason given is often that these other observations cannot be proven. The fallacy refers to McNamara's belief as to what led the United States to defeat in the Vietnam War—specifically, his quantification of success in the war (e.g., in terms of enemy body count), ignoring other variables. Artifice, blindness, and suicide warlogicmetricsquality