Plan, No Plan

In preparing for battle, I have found that planning is essential, but plans are useless.
– Dwight D. Eisenhower

I found this quote in “Finding Your Inner Fish” by Neil Shubin (excellent!). Neil said, “this captures field paleontology in a nutshell.” I felt this also captures a major WeiQi insight.

Paradoxes like these are often used in Zen to point the mind away from fixing words as if they represent real objects and instead toward truth.