"First Law of Advice: The correct advice to give is the advice that is desired." - Archibald Putt
In context:
...FOUR LAWS OF ADVICE
Learning to give good advice is so important to technologists that special laws of advice have been developed. The first of these is often stated as follows: "The correct advice is the desired advice." However, this form of the law leaves ambiguous whether the recipient wants correct advice or whether the desired advice is by definition the correct advice. A much clearer and completely unambiguous statement is provided by the following version of the First Law of Advice:
The correct advice to give is the advice that
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