Philip Tetlock Quote

The intellectually aggressive hedgehogs knew one big thing and sought, under the banner of parsimony, to expand the explanatory power of that big thing to cover new cases; the more eclectic foxes knew many little things and were content to improvise ad hoc solutions to keep pace with a rapidly changing world.

In: Justin Fox. "How to Be Bad at Forecasting," in Harvard Business Review, May 11, 2012.