Frazz by Jef Mallett for April 17, 2009
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Transcript:
Caulfield says, "No one seems to know for sure who said it first and who paraphrased it." Caulfield says, "So when Umberto Eco needed to put it in his novel, he simply attributed it to '?The man.'" Caulfield says, "Ta-da." Frazz says, "What quote?" Caulfield says, "'For every complex problem there is a simple solution, and it's wrong.'"
“Explanations exist; they have existed for all time; there is always a well-known solution to every human problem—neat, plausible, and wrong.” — H. L. Mencken, Prejudices: Second Series, 1920. This was 12 years before Eco was born. I’m not saying that Mencken came up with it; it’s probably something he heard and paraphrased.