In his painting Minerva Expelling the Vices from the Garden of Virtue, lent by the Louvre, classical putti help the goddess of wisdom chase a crowd of satyrs, centaurs and other misfits out of a green paradise.
It may have been one-dimensional, but that direct style paid off as Borini chased up on a swift counter-attack and was clumsily fouled by Wisdom in the box as he controlled Defoe's return ball.
There are those who question the wisdom of chasing the prize.
The internet is often blamed for propagating invented quotations, usually attributed to Lincoln or Voltaire, but it is a powerful engine for chasing misattributed words of wisdom.
Hence, a megacrisis that never ends: at root, it's a crisis of underinvesting in human potential, and overinvesting in lowest-common-denominator junk; a crisis of too many plastic widgets chasing too little imagination, wisdom, connection, and purpose.
To be sure, some very smart investors--most notably Berkshire Hathaway CEO Warren Buffethe-question the wisdom of chasing both profit and social good with the same buck.
While the recent recession has many Americans rethinking the wisdom of chasing money and things all our life even at the cost of our health and happiness, the Chinese have no such reservations.
In my experience, perpetually single people turn down all the nice ones to keep being chased around their own emotional landscape, again and again, by someone with the wisdom of a border collie.
Instead of a long-overdue debate about the wisdom of rebuilding in areas of extreme fire danger, residents and developers chased the mirage of "defensible space".
It chased milliwatts, while Intel chased horsepower.
