Never, ever stop learning stuff... what did I learn today... He never said it...its folklore. Who? Willie Sutton Sutton's law[edit] Main article: Sutton's law In a famous apocryphal story, Sutton was asked by reporter Mitch Ohnstad why he robbed banks. According to Ohnstad, he replied, "Because that's where the money is." The quote evolved into Sutton's law, which is often invoked to medical students as a metaphor for focusing a workup on the most likely diagnosis, rather than wasting time and money investigating every conceivable possibility. In his autobiography, Sutton denied originating the pithy rejoinder: The irony of using a bank robber's maxim as an instrument for teaching medicine is compounded, I will now confess, by the fact that I never said it. The credit belongs to some enterprising reporter who apparently felt a need to fill out his copy. I can't even remember where I first read it. It just seemed to appear one day, and then it was everywhere.If anybody had asked me, I'd have probably said it. That's what almost anybody would say ... it couldn't be more obvious.Or could it?Why did I rob banks? Because I enjoyed it. I loved it. I was more alive when I was inside a bank, robbing it, than at any other time in my life. I enjoyed everything about it so much that one or two weeks later I'd be out looking for the next job. But to me the money was the chips, that's all.[1] I looked it up as I was thinking over WMC SHanghai. L8er this month. http://www.mwcshanghai.com/agenda/#wednesday
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