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ARCHITECT, n. One who drafts a plan of your house, and plans a draft of your money; who estimates the whole cost, and himself costs the whole estimate.

Ambrose Bierce (1842-1914?) American writer and journalist
“Architect,” The Cynic’s Word Book (1906)
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Included in The Devil's Dictionary (1911), but just the first clause.
 
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It is better to be roughly right than to be precisely wrong.

John Maynard Keynes (1883-1946) English economist
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Not attributed to Keynes until after his death. Actually from Carveth Read, Logic, deductive and inductive (1898): "It is better to be vaguely right than exactly wrong."
 
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