"Idea whose time has come" (1919); "Hammer sees nail" (1979)

[Fred Shapiro]

Quoting Bapopik at AOL.COM:

> "WHEN ALL YOU HAVE IS A HAMMER, EVERYTHING LOOKS LIKE A NAIL"
> ...
> Maybe Ben can do better. Oxford says late 20th century.
>
> By LOUISE SAUL.  New York Times (1857-Current file). New York, N.Y.:
> Nov  25,
> 1979. p. NJ2 (1 page) :
> ...
> "There's an old saying that, when you were trained to use a hammer,
> everything begins to look like a nail."

This is from Abraham Maslow, The Psychology of Science (1966).

Fred Shapiro