# Maslow's Hammer Is concept in psychology that **describes a cognitive bias towards familiar tools** described by Abraham Maslow in 1966[^1]. He famously said: **"I suppose it is tempting, if the only tool you have is a hammer, to treat everything as if it were a nail."** [^1]: A consensus for the exact origin of the concept does not actually exist. Some attribute it to Abraham Kaplan, but references to an English expression 'a Birmingham screwdriver' actually predate both. It's also an **anti-pattern in computer science first introduced as such in 1998** in a book called *AntiPatterns: refactoring software, architectures, and projects in crisis* by William J. Brown, et. al. ## Sources - [[Law of the Instrument - Wikipedia]]