Quotes About Simplification

to the conspiratorial mind, shit never just happens,' the complexities of human life are reduced to produce theories that are 'always consoling in their simplicity" bad things do not happen because of a wildly complex swirl of abstract historical and social variables. They happen because bad men live to stalk our happiness. And you can fight, and possibly even defeat, bad men. If you can read the hidden story

I learned this, at least, by my experiment; that if one advances confidently in the direction of his dreams, and endeavors to live the life which he has imagined, he will meet with a success unexpected in common hours… . In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.

complicated code is a sign that you don't understand your program well enough to make it simple.

If I designed a computer with 200 chips, I tried to design it with 150. And then I would try to design it with 100. I just tried to find every trick I could in life to design things real tiny.

Everyone generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

Everybody generalizes from one example. At least, I do.

America's lifestyle expectations are far too high and need to be adjusted so we have less things and a smaller, better existence.

G. K. Chesterton's observation: "The simplification of anything is always sensational.

Writers and journalists tend to be simplistic about politics when, like all other areas of life, it's more complicated.

In general, we are lazy as consumers and just want to label people as good guy, bad guy.

Science may be described as the art of systematic oversimplification.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification — the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

In a nutshell, calculus wants to make hard problems simpler.

Those of us who teach math should try to turn this bug into a feature. We should be up front about the fact that word problems force us to make simplifying assumptions. That's a valuable skill—it's called mathematical modeling.

People are being overwhelmed with social issues, political problems and economic problems - and this notion of giving everything up and going to live off-grid and to have a simpler way of life is quite attractive.

I had a little house, and I sold that and moved into a condo, then sold the condo... I kept downsizing and downsizing.

I've sold all but one of my microphones, put away my mini-notebooks, stopped scouring the Internet for scraps of wisdom.

Boris Johnson and Donald Trump appeal to the heart not the head, they offer simple solutions in a time of complex problems.

Yet we act as if simple cause and effect is at work. We push to find the one simple reason things have gone wrong. We look for the one action, or the one person, that created this mess. As soon as we find someone to blame, we act as if we've solved the problem.

Junk is the "ideal product" because the "junk merchant does not sell his product to the consumer, he sells the consumer to his product. He does not improve and simplify his merchandise. He degrades and simplifies the client.

The United States has been turned into a mindless true-false test, instead of the complex essay exam, it should be. You are either for open borders, or you are racist and anti-immigration. It just doesn't work that way.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward mastery of a subject -- the actual enemy is the unknown.

Before an explanation can be too simple, it must first be wrong.

She read it over, decided it was too complicated for Memo , and ran it through an app called MyTxt4Dummies.