Quotes About Facile

one thing that separates good programmers from bad programmers is that good programmers are more facile at jumping between layers of abstraction—they can keep the layers distinct while making changes and choose the right layer to make changes in.

This is a convenient focus, because the villains are easily identified and measures can be taken against malfeasance and neglect. What's more, it absolves the rest of us of our responsibility for precipitating this crisis. But this is too facile a response.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

These sociologists who talk to facilely about the sacred are like a man who keeps a toothless old circus lion around the house in order to experience the thrills of the jungle.

Human judgment is notoriously fallible and perhaps seldom more so than in facile decisions that a character has no adaptive significance because we do not know the use of it.

So we might say that pregnant silence is at the same time the most facile, as well as one of the highest, esthetic achievements.

The unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

Meantime, the unschooled European mind, inclined to rational reduction, to pigeonholing and simplification, readily pushes everything African into a single bag and is content with facile stereotypes.

The facile economic and psychological debunking of the theoretical life cannot do away with its irreducible beauties.

There is an abyss between the men of brilliant and facile conceptions and men of brutal deeds and active bestiality which no intellectual explanation is able to bridge.

As long as I stared at the clock, at least the world remained in motion. Not a very consequential world, but in motion nonetheless. And as long as I knew the world was still in motion, I knew I existed. Not a very consequential existence, but an existence nonetheless. It struck me as wanting that someone should confirm his own existence only by the hands of an electric wall clock. There had to be a more cognitive means of confirmation. But try as I might, nothing less facile came to mind.

It was easy,' I said.

Better to suffer the loneliness of the cold throne room than endure the isolation to be found within the crowds of facile courtiers.

It's natural to defend the honor of your forebears, if only with arguments so facile that a well-educated child could see through them. He fought for states' rights. States' rights to do what?

Lawrence immediately saw that it was a trick question. You would have to be some kind of idiot to make the facile assumption that the current would add or subtract 5 miles per hour to or from the speed of the boat.

I think there is a great tendency toward autobiography among women today. It is perhaps facile - and I say that even though I have written one myself.

He was in a full possession of facile, refined and agreeable intellect which he used to maintain his power and strengthen and increase his popularity.

There's a kind of facile response that normies have when they hear about saddies going to bed and staying there. The normies think that it's about being bummed out or lazy. That may be a factor for some, but a much more common reason is that, again, we're exhausted.

You're buying into this celebrity bullshit? Don't you know it's all a facile celebration of commerce and mediocrity?