Quotes About Clarity

We should not expect too much from faith," he said. "Human understanding is fallible, and we see through a glass, darkly.

What could be done? We thought we had such problems. How were we to know we were happy?

But it's difficult to be grateful for the absence of an unknown quantity.

What you don't know won't hurt you.

The pain gave me something definite to think about, something immediate. It was something to hold onto.

Why should I need to explain you

your kiss no longer literature but fine print, a set of instructions.

She who does not hesitate is lost.

Is this really your fate, to enter poetry and become transparent?

Who is this Fuck?" says Abraham Lincoln. "Why is he talking to this Fuck? That is not the name of anyone here.

Words," he said, looking in my direction finally but with his eyes strangely unfocussed, as though he was really looking at a point several inches beneath my skin, "are beginning to lose their meanings.

I didn't want realism anyway: I wanted things to be highly coloured, simple in outline, without ambiguity, which is what most children want when it comes to the stories of their parents. They want a postcard.

But once you've climbed a ladder, what use is it? You kick it away, if you don't intend to go down it again.

I have to be more careful about my memories, I have to be sure they're my own and not the memories of other people telling me what I felt, how I acted, what I said: if the events are wrong the feelings I remember about them will be wrong too, I'll start inventing them and there will be no way of correcting it, the ones who could help are gone.

What were these animals then? They didn't have names, but I knew what they were.

The tulip is not a reason for disbelief in the hanged man, or vice versa. Each thing is valid and really there. It is through a field of such valid objects that I must pick my way, every day and in every way. I put a lot of effort into making such distinctions. I need to make them. I need to be very clear, in my own mind. I

He ran both his hands through his hair, as if somehow that would straighten out his thoughts.

As long as it (an issue) remains invisible, it is guaranteed to remain insoluble.

You are a child if you thought I didn't know, for all your smothering yourself under that hot lap robe. Of course, I knew. Why else do you think I've been—" He stopped suddenly and a silence fell between them. He picked up the reins and clucked to the horse.

It's a curse—this not wanting to look on naked realities. Until the war, life was never more real to me than a shadow show on a curtain. And I preferred it so. I did not like the outlines of things to be too sharp. I like them gently blurred, a little hazy... In other words, Scarlett, I am a coward.

Clear content, simple navigation and answers to customer questions have the biggest impact on business value. Advanced technology matters much less.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Technology is so much fun but we can drown in our technology. The fog of information can drive out knowledge.

Good code is its own best documentation.