Managers...

So it looks like the way I appropriated this quote is: "Managers would rather live with a problem they can't solve than with a solution they don't understand", according to GovExec: link

But, unsurprisingly, I found a much, much earlier version from Dr. Francis F. Bradshaw (1893-1979), a former president of the Society for the Advancement of Management, quoted in a 1965 Management Science article, appropriately titled "Roadblocks to Progress in the Management Sciences and Operations Research". link

And to think I thought I had inadvertently invented a meme. But that was before the age of Google and I had forgotten about it. Mixed blessing, this Internet thing.