“The need to live by secure, sharply etched classifications is buried deep in the human mind and one of its earliest demands;… — Peter Gay Copy Share Image
...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because… — Edsger Dijkstra Copy Share Image
I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity. — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Why was America so kind and yet so cruel? Was there no way to simplifying things in this continent so that suffering… — Carlos Bulosan Copy Share Image
Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives. — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me,… — Zadie Smith Copy Share Image
“Holden... One short, faintly stuffy, pedagogical question. Don't you think there's a time and place for everything? Don't you think if someone… — J.D. Salinger Copy Share Image
We are difficult. Human beings are difficult. We're difficult to ourselves, we're difficult to each other. And we are mysteries to ourselves,… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
There are a whole other range of sciences that must deal with the narrative reconstruction of the inordinately complex events of history… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
“There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification of life is one of them.” — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“Before you make any decision tomorrow, ask yourself: • Does this simplify or complicate? • Does this clarify or confuse? • Does… — Greg Born Copy Share Image
The economic union - creating a big common market, like the United States, so that you can compete across borders. There are… — Jamie Dimon Copy Share Image
The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues. — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
Culture has never the translucidity of custom; it abhors all simplification. In its essence it is opposed to custom, for custom is… — Frantz Fanon Copy Share Image
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome… — Adam Richman Copy Share Image
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace… — Barack Obama Copy Share Image
Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age. Its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly… — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
The faculty of attention has utterly vanished from the Anglo-Saxon mind, extinguished at its source by the big bayad?re of journalism, of… — Henry James Copy Share Image
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization,… — Laura E. Richards Copy Share Image
