Great Throughts Treasury

This site is dedicated to the memory of Dr. Alan William Smolowe who gave birth to the creation of this database.

Putt's Law NULL

Putt's Law and the Successful Technocrat is the title of a 1981 book, credited to the pseudonym Archibald Putt based upon a series of articles published in Research/Development Magazine in 1976 and 1977. An updated edition, with the added subtitle How to Win in the Information Age, was published in 2006.

"Technology is dominated by two types of people: those who understand what they do not manage, and those who manage what they do not understand."

"Every technical hierarchy, in time, develops a competence inversion.""