On the Fifteenth Amendment; writing for the court, Lane v. Wilson, 307 U.S. 268, 275 (1939).
Judicial opinions
As quoted in "Van Wagenen Fellowship Richard M. Bergland 1968 Oxford University," American Association of Neurological Surgeons (2004)
The Age of Uncertainty (1977), BBC Television series (also published in book form, non verbatim version)
“Simple minds respond to simple answers.”
Source: Shadows Linger (1984), Chapter 33, “Juniper: The Encounter” (p. 370)
1990s, I Am a Man, a Black Man, an American (1998)
“Taking out a commission of bankruptcy is a well-known mode of recovering a debt.”
Guthrie v. Fisk (1824), 3 B & C. 183.
A Conversation with Ward Cunningham (2003), The Simplest Thing that Could Possibly Work
"Our Knowledge of the Causes of the Phenomena of Organic Nature" (1863) http://aleph0.clarku.edu/huxley/CE2/Phen.html
1860s
“The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds.”
Ackoff (2007) as cited in: Stefan Stern (2009) "Fond farewell to a brilliant thinker". in: Financial Times, November 9, 2009.
2000s
Context: The only problems that have simple solutions are simple problems. The only managers that have simple problems have simple minds. Problems that arise in organisations are almost always the product of interactions of parts, never the action of a single part. Complex problems do not have simple solutions.
