We had a meeting at our client’s office today. Again, Riddler provided some notable quotes.

“Beauty is our middle name.”
“They have information.. no that’s the wrong word - they have diagnosis things.”
“There’s no harm in that… unless I hear about it.”
“You can still get woolly when you go down the road.” (NB- WTF??)

One of the meeting participants was a rather sarcastic but brilliant individual. During the meeting, Riddler talked about one of the exercises he proposed for getting everything to ‘think outside the box’. The exercise was hanging a giant canvas on the wall and having everyone scribble patterns in oil paint.

This individual responded to this story, simply with:

That’s very brave. By brave I mean rather foolish of course.

Three (count’em), 3 times, Riddler indicated that he knew the right way to approach a problem raised by the client, and that his approach was the correct one. This was always described in very vague and incomplete ways, such that nobody understood what he meant.

Three times, the client countered with, “Well Riddler, what are you talking about? Give me an example?”

Riddler’s typical response? “Um, well, you know, we could have… welll.. I’m no doctor, you tell me!”

So… tell them you have the answer. When asked to provide an example, explain that you don’t know what you’re talking about. Not just once, but 3 times.

GHC provided a more succint depiction of this event:

Riddler:
I know exactly how you should do this.
Client:
How should we do this?
Riddler:
How the hell should I know?