does anyone know the origin of the term "admiring the problem"? Google returns a lot of search results but I can't trace it back to a definitive source google.com/search?q=admir
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Looks like this is one likely source
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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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Another, from google books,
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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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Lol, Brilliant (that's some last name!) appears to be an epigram troll, suing people over using his claimed original epigrams... en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashleigh_
He was a mild boom in the early 80s. My parents bought two of his books. The likelihood that he was the proximate or near-proximate source of the epigram in these cases is pretty high.



