To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization. — Thomas Malthus Copy Share Image
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires. — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds… — Geoffrey Hill Copy Share Image
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient - kick Greece out, everything's fine. What would happen to Spain, what… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process… — Raymond Loewy Copy Share Image
There is one simplification at least. Electrons behave ... in exactly the same way as photons; they are both screwy, but in… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who… — Young-Ha Kim Copy Share Image
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters Copy Share Image
I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“... a human looks at a tree it translates the intricately complex mass of leaves and branches into this thing called ‘tree’.… — Matt Haig Copy Share Image
I will work with Congress to introduce a series of legislative reforms and will fight for their passage in the first 100… — Donald Trump Copy Share Image
O sancta simplicitas! What strange simplification and falsification mankind lives on! One can never cease to marvel once one has acquired eyes… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
“It's bad to make general statements about groups of people--there are always exceptions, and those exceptions are likely to be offended if… — Mira Grant Copy Share Image
We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider — Kay Bojesen Copy Share Image
Nature/Structure. There is no more to say. In my pictures I reduce to that. But 'reduce' is the wrong word, because these… — Gerhard Richter Copy Share Image
Faith transcends reason because divine truth is not only higher, but also wider than the human mind, and the rationalist in his… — Christopher Dawson Copy Share Image
The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification. — Patrick David Wall Copy Share Image
With Complicated Grief I can say that there was a certain simplification in the process. Getting older means less wasted effort, things… — Laura Mullen Copy Share Image
“Family is not disparate relationships between individuals and machines, in separate rooms of a house. Childhood is not a race to accumulate… — Kim John Payne Copy Share Image
“Every company is perfectly designed to get the results it's getting— change the design, change the results.” — Greg Born Copy Share Image
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with… — Ryszard Kapuscinski Copy Share Image
