> I wished I could be judged by my academic peers. It was my belief that they would be more receptive to logical argument, understanding in their analysis, and more committed to fundamental principles.
Have you met any academics?
Have you met any academics?
Sayre's Law[1] was paraphrased by Henry Kissinger as, "Academic politics are so vicious because the stakes are so small."
> "In any dispute the intensity of feeling is inversely proportional to the value of the issues at stake."
I hadn't heard of Sayre's Law. It seems like a much more eloquent expression of the concept of bikeshedding.
Edit: I thought about this some more. I think bike shedding and sayre's law are slightly different - Sayre is like the law of gravity, bike shedding is like saying “and this is what gravity actually is caused by”.