A polished steel crank mechanism spins a small wooden arrow on a mustard-yellow disc against a slate background.

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Albert Einstein

Perfection of means and confusion of ends seem to characterize our age.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Our tools have become brilliant while our goals have grown blurry. That's the diagnosis here: we're superb at how to do things and muddled about what to do them for. It's a compact complaint about skill outrunning purpose in the age being described.

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