While the fox is cunning and employs many strategies to capture the hedgehog, that sly little creature knows how to avoid capture and most importantly, play dead. Curled up in a ball the hedgehog ...

The fox knows many things while the hedgehog knows one big thing. Photo: Jeremy P. Gray The Greek poet Archilocus noticed this almost 3,000 years ago.

Isaiah Berlin's original 1953 essay, The Hedgehog and the Fox, which revived the ancient Greek parable in the popular imagination. More poems and proverbs by the Greek poet Archilochus.

Self-Driving Cars And The Fox And Hedgehog Parable. For Level 4 and Level 5 true self-driving vehicles, there won’t be a human driver involved in the driving task.

A life well-lived should be about the struggle for many good things, not just one.

War, suffering and the Holocaust were the results. Berlin used the saying from Archilochus, “A fox knows many things, but a hedgehog knows one big thing,” to illustrate different ways to think.

In Life, Who Wins, the Fox or the Hedgehog? By . Alison Gopnik. Share. Resize. In a famous essay, the Oxford philosopher Isaiah Berlin divided thinkers into two categories, hedgehogs and foxes.

Few people are “purely” hedgehog or fox in how they think and act. For each item, is A or B more representative of your behavior? Complete the quiz, then tally up your score. 1.

The parable of the fox and the hedgehog tells us that there are some who are guided by one big idea. That's the story of Don Laub, a surgeon whose single-mindedness led to both triumph and tragedy.