Quotes About Simplification

The food pyramid is very complicated. It doesn't give you as much info in a quick glance as the plate does.

Arguments that explain everything... explain nothing

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

The world is undergoing a movement toward authoritarianism, Delaney, and this is about order. People think the world is out of control. They want someone to stop the changes. This aligns perfectly with what the Every is doing: feeding the urge to control, to reduce nuance, to categorize, and to assign numbers to anything inherently complex. To simplify. To tell us how it will be. An authoritarian promises these things, too.

Many years ago Alfred North Whitehead cogently observed, "Civilization advances by extending the number of important operations which we can perform without thinking about them.

The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers put into clear, easily understandable focus, the broad basis of man's relationship to God, to government, and to his fellow man.

Evolution is a great word but it turns its back on difficulties and sums up a rich and complicated reality under a vague formula.

You might not think of something like TurboTax as a civic venture, but that product took a confusing interface to a government process and made it simpler and easier to use for citizens.

I was living in a four-story Manhattan townhouse with three full-time servants and silver to be polished, and I was doing too much. My kids were growing up without me, and suddenly I thought, 'I want some other stuff.' So I stopped working instead of cutting back, and went to Australia instead of Vermont.

Emotions, in my experience, aren't covered by single words. I don't believe in sadness, joy, or regret. Maybe the best proof that the language is patriarchal is that it oversimplifies feeling.

I enjoy popularisation and I think I'm reasonably good at it. I also think it's a duty. It's just so pedagogically stupid to forget how difficult one found these ideas oneself to begin with.

My favourite subjects at school were algebra and logic: making a big problem into something small.

I support transitioning from the progressive tax to a flat tax system - both individual and corporate/business.

That's part of the problem, the overkill. And when they make it complicated, they make it expensive and so then you can no longer stay in business.

James Reston, Jr.: You know the first and greatest sin of the deception of television is that it simplifies; it diminishes, great complex ideas, stretches of time; whole careers become reduced to a single snapshot.

Another important historical factor is the fact that this already very simple religion was further simplified and purified by the early philosophers of ancient China. Our first great philosopher was a founder of naturalism and our second great philosopher was an agnostic.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers who can cut through the argument debate and doubt to offer a solution everybody can understand.

Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers.

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")

You're still a good guy, right? You know how confusing the whole good-evil concept is for me." "I'm thinking about changing it to 'them' and 'us,' for simplicity's sake

Stop doing lists are more important thanto do lists.

The multiplicity of facts and writings is become so great that every thing must soon be reduced to extracts and dictionaries.

FALLACY I—The first fallacy of Communism is its attempt to over-simplify history.