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"Bamboozle the target with technobabble. Target lacks the skills to independently verify the claim or even recognize the vocabulary is just plain wrong." Ah ye
by dvtrn 7y ago
"Bamboozle the target with technobabble. Target lacks the skills to independently verify the claim or even recognize the vocabulary is just plain wrong."
Ah yes, an adage of my old Staff Sergeant (who probably borrowed it himself) "if you can't convince them with brilliance, confuse them with bullshit".
- cesarb 7y agoThe canonical wording of that phrase seems to be "If you can't dazzle them with brilliance, baffle them with bullshit." according to https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._C._Fields https://en.wikiquote.org/wiki/W._C._Fields
- brianpgordon 7y agoA related quote is- "There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies." s/software design/piece of public technical writing/ and you have a pretty good match for Wright.