Alexander Meiklejohn

[justhangn]

"There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is."

 

[desertrat]

"There is, I think, nothing in the world more futile than the attempt to find out how a task should be done when one has not yet decided what the task is."

Or if it needs doing.