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In literature, too, we admire prose in which a small and astutely arranged set of words has been constructed to carry a large consignment of ideas. 'We all have strength enough to bear the misfortunes of others,' writes La Rochefoucauld in an aphorism which transports us with an energy and exactitude comparable to that of Maillard bridge. The Swiss engineer reduces the number of supports just as the French writer compacts into a single line what lesser minds might have taken pages to express. We delight in complexity to which genius has lent an appearance of simplicity. (p 207)


Alain de Botton


#engineering #literature #simplicity #words #writing

This growth in the number, speed of formation, permanence, delicacy and complexity of associations possible for an animal reaches its acme in the case of man.


Edward Thorndike


#animal #associations #case #complexity #delicacy

I never knew anybody . . . who found life simple. I think a life or a time looks simple when you leave out the details.


Ursula K. Le Guin


#diversity #life

Whenever something is engineered as complex, it is designed to keep you simple.


Richard Diaz


#design #engineered #simple #design

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.


Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA


#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education

He was a simple man who had no inferiority complex about his lack of education, and even more amazing no superiority complex because he had succeeded despite that lack.


Maya Angelou


#inferiority-complex #education

Do the most difficult thing if that is what will pay you. Dust the Rust if you Must. Success never comes with ease.


Israelmore Ayivor


#difficult #dust #dust-the-rust #ease #excellence

The ideal art, the noblest of art: working with the complexities of life, refusing to simplify, to "overcome" doubt.


Joyce Carol Oates


#art #complexity #writing #art

The warrior may fight for gold or for an immediate gain, or for something to take home for the winter to feed the family. The soldier is part of a more complex society. He's fighting for a group ethic of some sort.


C. J. Cherryh


#ethic #family #feed #fight #fighting

Saying something is far too simple is a doubter's way or trying to make the world more complex so he won't have answers.


Adam P. Knave


#complex #life #simple #world #life






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