“Do not be seduced into using concepts and terminology purporting to solve all your lighting problems unless you thoroughly understand the assumption made in their development. You will be far better served to use only simple cause-and-effect data until there is general agreement on the effectiveness of the very esoteric concepts presently being bandied about.”
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