Although this is what my Army platoon Sergeant often told me—he would, of course, precede it with the proper address of “Sir”—it really makes a lot of sense; however, I did not realize that my platoon sergeant was such a student of humanity, until much later when I heard about this fellow named Occam. William of Occam, or sometimes rendered Ockham, (c. 1287–1347) is remembered as an influential m…