Quotes About Clarity

Platonicity is what makes us think that we understand more than we actually do.

I am never bothered by normal people; it is the bull***tter in the "intellectual" profession who bothers me.

It is often said that "is wise he who can see things coming." Perhaps the wise one is the one who knows that he cannot see things far away.

their intuition getting in the way and blinding them.

the difference between noise and signal. Noise is what you are supposed to ignore, signal what you need to heed.

we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

But it remains the case that you know what is wrong with a lot more confidence than you know what is right. All pieces of information are not equal in importance.

At the core, he tends to mistake the unknown for the nonexistent.

his conversation becomes mere chitchat around the point, never getting to the central idea.

Less is more and usually more effective.

to avoid dullness may help to filter out the nonessential.)

I am simplifying numbers here for clarity.

to show people how lacking in clarity they were in their thoughts, how little they knew about the concepts they used routinely

shame-free policy is maximal transparency, even transparency of intentions.

You are taking the joy of ignorance out of the things we don't understand.

We know with much more clarity what is bad than what is good.

knowledge is reached (mostly) by removing junk from people's heads.

Nero believes, draw people to focus on noise rather than the signal (the

the retrospective distortion, or how we can assess matters only after the fact, as if they were in a rearview mirror (history seems clearer and more organized in history books than in empirical reality);

I do not dispute that arguments should be simplified to their maximum potential; but people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

Puede que no sea algo exigible desde el punto de vista ético, pero la política más eficaz y más libre de vergüenza es la transparencia máxima, la cual incluye la transparencia de intenciones.