I like to translate ideas programmers talk about it to more commonly recognized bits of wisdom, so for this one I'm going with "if all you have is a hammer, ev

I like to translate ideas programmers talk about it to more commonly recognized bits of wisdom, so for this one I'm going with "if all you have is a hammer, everything looks like a nail" When I looked it up, I was surprised this is of fairly recent origin by Abraham Maslow in 1966 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Law_of_the_instrument