Gordon [Tullock] was on my dissertation committee. After reading all 252 pages of my dissertation within twelve hours of my submitting it, Gordon caught me in the Public Choice hallway at Virginia Tech to give me his assessment: “Minimal but acceptable.” To which I replied, “Optimal. Done!”
Related engineer joke: “anybody can build a bridge that won’t collapse–but it takes a real engineer to build a bridge that justbarely avoids collapse.”
-- Richard McKenzie, quoted on Econlog
Related engineer joke: “anybody can build a bridge that won’t collapse–but it takes a real engineer to build a bridge that just barely avoids collapse.”