A Quote by Alan Perlis

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Alan Perlis

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Avoid Complexity Fools Geniuses Ignore Pragmatists Remove Some Suffer

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Alan Perlis
American - Scientist
April 1, 1922 - February 7, 1990

If we define a misanthrope as 'someone who does not suffer fools and likes to see fools suffer,' we have described a person with something to look forward to.

Florence King

Where politics is concerned, I think poets have to be pragmatists, philosophical pragmatists.

Robert Hass

I don't suffer fools, and I like to see fools suffer.

Florence King

This may come as a shock to some of you, but I have a slightly volatile personality. I don’t suffer fools well.

Tucker Max

To the extent that we honor all aspects of ourselves, we remove revulsion, self-hate, horror, and terror from our lives. As whole human beings we are the creatures of the greatest complexity on this planet. Respect for this complexity includes our insisting on acceptance of the inconsistent and incongruous.

Theodore Isaac Rubin

Labeled fools to the world are geniuses to the cosmos.

Criss Jami

We do not like to be robbed of an enemy; we want someone to hate when we suffer. It is so depressing to think that we suffer because we are fools; yet, taking mankind in the mass, that is the truth.

Bertrand Russell

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer; not to love is to suffer; to suffer is to suffer. To be happy is to love. To be happy, then, is to suffer, but suffering makes one unhappy. Therefore, to be happy one must love or love to suffer or suffer from too much happiness.

Woody Allen

I suffer migraines. I do not suffer fools.

E. Lockhart

Not only did he [Dean Acheson] not suffer fools gladly, he did not suffer them at all.

Lester B. Pearson

There are three kinds of fools in this world, fools proper, educated fools and rich fools. The world persists because of the folly of these fools.

Narayanananda Swami.

To love is to suffer. To avoid suffering one must not love. But then one suffers from not loving. Therefore, to love is to suffer. Not to love is to suffer.

Woody Allen

That it should be the questions and shape of a life, its total complexity gathered, arranged, and considered, which matters in the end, not some stamp of salvation or damnation that disperses all the complexity into some unsatisfying little decision - the balancing of scales.

Tony Kushner

Some have sought to avoid suffering by avoiding desire. Thus they have only small desires and small sufferings, poor fools.

Peter J. Carroll

The fact that some geniuses were laughed at does not imply that all who are laughed at are geniuses.

Carl Sagan

Inventors and geniuses have almost always been looked on as no better than fools at the beginning of their career, and very frequently at the end of it also.

Fyodor Dostoevsky

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