Quotes about Simplification
Reductionism is like a kid who argues that whatever does not fit into his toy box is not a toy.
- Nancy Pearcey
Whenever there is hard work to be done, I assign it to the laziest man as he is sure to find an easy way of doing it. Be lazy, think crazy.
- Bill Gates
The theorizing mind tends always to the over-simplification of its materials. This is the root of all that absolutism and one-sided dogmatism by which both philosophy and religion have been infested.
- William James
I'm always trying to think of ways to make something more efficient. If I have to do something once, that's fine. If I have to do it twice, I'm kind of annoyed. And if I have to do it three times, I'm going to try to automate it.
- Tobias Lutke
As in other departments of science, so in politics, the compound should always be resolved into the simple elements or least parts of the whole.
- Aristotle
The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.
- Grover Norquist
Omission and simplification help us to understand--but help us, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.
- Aldous Huxley