Taking Statistical Models Too Seriously
Taking a model too seriously is really just another way of not taking it seriously at all.
— Andrew Gelman
Come Back with Three Corners
The Master said, If they are not eager, I don't expound. If they are not urgent, I don't explain. If I give out one corner and they don't come back with three corners, then I don't go on. — Confucius, Analects 7.8 (Tr. Brooks & Brooks)