Quotes About Simplification

There are a lot of things that fit on a bumper sticker in terms of either liberty or equality or progress that when made more concrete just don't pan out.

The textbooks are dumbed down to the where your kid sister could probably read them, and the teacher go over and over and over the same stuff anyway, drilling it into your head so that they can ask you one hundred multiple-choice questions to get it all back out of you again.

In essence, oversimplification tends to take a partial truth and make it all powerful.

we are all guilty of oversimplification at one point or another. It's an enticing idea. It fulfills our need for instant gratification. We find one thing and scream, "Eureka!" We found IT—the one thing that explains it all. The only trouble is that it never works. We are more likely to squeeze gold from our coffee grinder than we are to meet with success when adopting an idea that has been simplified beyond recognition.

You simplify because you cannot believe. You reduce; you diminish. Because you were raised to doubt and debunk. To reduce to a small set of knowns for easy digestion. Because you are a doctor, a man of science, and because this is America—where everything is known and understood, and God is a benevolent dictator, and the future must always be bright.

It'll always be easier to fight others if you reduce them to a single word or look at them just one way.

We build scientific theories to organize and manipulate the world, to reduce phenomena into manageable units.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject.

Order and simplification are the first steps towards mastery of a subject

Instagram doesn't leave a lot of room for nuance.

I think neuroscience is obviously very esoteric, but I think there are aspects of it that can absolutely be brought down to the level of an interested 11-, 12-, 13-year-old easily.

the definition of a machine is simple. It is anything that reduces human effort. Anything.

Man kann sich die Konzeptionen, mit denen Massen gefüttert und bewegt werde, gar nicht kindlich genug vorstellen. Echte Ideen müssen, um massenbewegende historische Kräfte zu werden, im allgemeinen erst bis auf die Fassungskraft eines Kindes heruntersimpifiziert werden.

95 per cent of economics is common sense made complicated

If you don't understand something, break it apart; reduce it to its components. Since they are simpler than the whole, you have a much better chance of understanding them; and when you have succeeded in doing that, put the whole thing back together again.

The more primitive a language is the less it abstracts. [...] As the language with its people advances in civilization it classifies, i.e. abstracts and simplifies more and more; it sees common qualities and drops out those distinctions that do not subserve life. A similar process may be observed in the formation of what we call Parts of Speech.

Like a historian, I interpret, select, discard, shape, simplify. Unlike a historian, I make up people's thoughts.

And I figured out that the reason I couldn't get through the day as well as I can now is because I had too many things on my mind, on my plate, you know, for one person to have. So I started to eliminate some of the things that were too heavy to carry and unnecessary.

A single tax return for Quebecers will eliminate unnecessary paperwork for families and businesses.

'Simplifying' the tax code is a priority mainly for people who make enough money to want to avoid paying taxes, and who make their money by means unorthodox enough to make avoiding taxes possible and desirable.

Let's do away with the Departments of Education, Energy Commerce, Housing and Urban Development.

Whenever there is a hard job to be done I assign it to a lazy man; he is sure to find an easy way of doing it.

The few things that work fantastically well should be identified, cultivated, nurtured, and multiplied.