Quotes About Clarity

Design is thinking made visible.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug." Power

As Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference between lightning and the lightning bug.

Mark Twain once put it, "The difference between the right word and the almost-right word is the difference

The move is there, but you must see it.

The magician has to know what the explanation for his magic is.

Christopher, like most people, didn't like his universe being unfathomable, so I doubted that a Zen koan would help him.

Here was a task with boundaries and purpose, a small thing that made sense. A small thing I could do well.

They set the kindling afire to consume the body of a man who had but one goal—to make the Bible readable for everyone.

It ain't those parts of the Bible that I can't understand that bother me; it is the parts I do understand." Whoever said that may well have been thinking about Matthew 5 or even our specific passage.

When did ignorance become a point of view?

prefer to die not knowing something, rather than live my entire life believing something was so, only to find out later that it wasn't true.

Stacy wasn't certain; she'd never bothered to pay attention to details like that, and was always regretting it, the half knowing, which felt worse than not knowing at all, the constant sense that she had things partly right, but not right enough to make a difference.

The bottleneck is never code or creativity; it's lack of clarity.

Expressing ideas is often the only way to fully understand what ideas are, and to know what it is you really think.

Perfection is attained, not when no more can be added, but when no more can be removed.

Regarding clarity, most teams in the working world are starving for it. Layers of hierarchy create conflicting goals.

As superficial as public speaking can seem, history bears out that people with clear ideas and strong points are the ones we remember.

Ambiguity makes everyone tolerant of incompetence.

Someone has to define what we're trying to get to and clarify which ideas are both more and less important in completing that vision.

For all of the strengths of WordPress's bazaar culture, its user experience lacked the grace and clarity a cathedral architect would naturally provide.

An epiphany is a powerful experience, but the myth of epiphany is that it alone is all you need.

Merely having a function doesn't say anything about how many people can figure it out or are even interested in trying.

They don't have to be superhuman, or even particularly bright, to do this (as I've no doubt discovered). They just have to understand the advantage of their perspective and choose to make use of it.