Comprehensiveness is the enemy of comprehensibility.

“Comprehensiveness is connecting the relevant elements of an event in a logical sense.”

— Dr. Hussam Atef Elkhatib

I'm pretty involved in everything I do, which isn't always efficient and doesn't necessarily make for the more successful product. But I do feel…

— Sufjan Stevens

To continue down the path of comprehensiveness, Wikipedia will need to sustain the astonishing mass fervor of its birth years. Will that be possible?…

— James Gleick

“They have provided a system which for terse comprehensiveness surpasses Justinian's Pandects and the By-laws of the Chinese Society for the Suppression of Meddling…

— Herman Melville

“We therefore conclude that no philosophy and no system of life produced by human thought can have the characteristic of "comprehensiveness." At most, it…

— Sayyid Qutb

“We often speak of Anglican "comprehensiveness." If this is a way of making relativism palatable or a means of accommodating all shades of opinion…

— Urban Tigner Holmes

Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved…

— Anonymous

Time past, present, and to come, as also depth and height, near and afar off, are all one in God, one comprehensibility.

— Jakob Bohme

History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully and only in a very limited sense by establishing strict causal connections.

— Johan Huizinga

The comprehensibility of the world seems to me a wonder or eternal secret. Here lies the sense of wonder which increases even more with…

— Albert Einstein

Maturity is an ability to see the things with comprehensibility, clarity, entirity and sanity than anything to do with the age capacity and capability.

— Anuj Somany

Comprehensibility is the highest law of all. Unity must be there. There must be means of ensuring it. All the things familiar to us…

— Anton Webern

One may say the eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

— Albert Einstein

The eternal mystery of the world is its comprehensibility.

— Albert Einstein

Every work of history constructs contexts and designs, forms in which past reality can be comprehended. History creates comprehensibility primarily by arranging facts meaningfully…

— Johan Huizinga