If the only tool you have is a hammer, it is tempting to treat everything as if it were a nail.

Abraham Maslow (1908-1970) American psychologist
The Psychology of Science (1966)

Variant: "When the only tool you own is a hammer, every problem begins to resemble a nail."

 
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