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Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant afaict. Didn't spend time figuring out where the quote was first published but it seems that the author has a lot of one liners attributed to him. This site seems kinda spammy but has good info. publicquotes.com/quote/494/i-do
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On balance I'd say credit to Ashleigh Ellwood Brilliant... the usage in the book seems like an idiosyncratic side thing not related to the main usage of the epigram. Maybe a nice case for
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I got it from using the phrase on a podcast, and he told me he'd heard it used by lots of people over the years. General sense of a kind of aesthetic analysis paralysis where you just explore a complex problem without actually solving it.
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