Quotes About Simplification

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

To generalize is to be an idiot.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the practice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

The art of it is, the more we can bring complex game mechanics to a mass market, the more engaging the games will be. But at the same time, we have to simplify everything: the mass market has a lower attention span; they're not seeking that experience from the outset.

consider a spherical cow.

The more you own, the more it owns you, and I'm tired of it. I'm tired of having to take care of everything. I'm tired of things breaking and having to fix them. It adds stress, and frankly, I'm giving myself a break." In

In the words of the English philosopher Alfred North Whitehead, "Civilization advances by extending the number of operations which we can perform without thinking about them."19

Il problema con i luoghi comuni è che, purtroppo, spesso dicono la verità. In modo grossolano, ma la dicono.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

O kitsch é a única forma de linguagem possível se quisermos comunicar com as massas, porque simplifica tudo e não apresenta nenhuma nuance.

never integrating their thinking into one overall concept or unifying vision. Hedgehogs, on the other hand, simplify a complex world into a single organizing idea, a basic principle or concept that unifies and guides everything. It doesn't matter how complex the world, a hedgehog reduces all challenges and dilemmas to simple— indeed almost simplistic—hedgehog ideas. For a hedgehog, anything that does not somehow relate to the hedgehog idea holds no relevance.

Non è un'esagerazione dire che la caccia e la raccolta sono, in termini di complessità, tanto differenti dalla coltivazione dei cereali quanto la coltivazione dei cereali è, a sua volta, distante dal lavoro ripetitivo di una moderna catena di montaggio. Ogni passo rappresenta una sostanziale riduzione degli obiettivi e una semplificazione dei compiti.

Administrative man recognizes that the world he perceives is a drastically simplified model of the buzzing, blooming confusion that constitutes the real world. He is content with the gross simplification because he believes that the real world is mostly empty—that most of the facts of the real world have no great relevance to any particular situation he is facing and that most significant chains of causes and consequences are short and simple. —Herbert Simon

I think putting labels on people is just an easy way of marketing something you don't understand.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts wisdom lies in their simplification.

If we need simple narratives so people can amplify and spread them, are we forced to engage only with the simplest of problems?

I cleaned up everything behind the scenes and simplified my life. I made some changes in my staff. I changed management, my accountants, my bookkeeping team. I had a full refresh. For me that was extremely important.

Black English is simpler than standard English in some ways; for example, it often gets by with just 'be' and drops 'am,' 'is,' and 'are.' That's because black English arose when adult African slaves learned the language.

The world needs more standardization, less innovation.

It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it.

My life's goal is to get rid of computers and invent everything that removes its necessity.

Learning builds daily accumulation, but the prictice of Tao builds daily simplification. Simplify and simplify, until all contamination from relative, contridictory thinking is eliminated. Then one does nothing, yet nothing is left undone. One who wins the world does so by not meddling with it. One who meddles with the world loses it.

the reality is that the best outsourcing is not about getting rid of work you don't want to do. If it's truly dumb work, maybe it doesn't have to be done at all. Maybe processes can be automated.