A Quote by Charles Mingus

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

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Charles Mingus
American - Musician
April 22, 1922 - January 5, 1979

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can plan weird; that's easy. What's hard is to be as simple as Bach. Making the simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

Charles Mingus

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

Charles Mingus

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Charles Mingus

The sun is simple. A sword is simple. A storm is simple. Behind everything simple is a huge tail of complicated.

Terry Pratchett

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Confucius

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

John Barth

It’s as simple as that. Simple and complicated, as most true things are.

David Levithan

I had forgotten this about love: how the simple things- the turn away, the turn towards- could be so complicated, and how the complicated things- the stolen night, the right words- could be so simple.

David Levithan

We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.

Hod Lipson

The road to climate stability is straight and the solutions simple, and yet scientists, economists, industrialists and politicians are busy making them complicated

Satish Kumar

Life isn't complicated. It's very simple, really. It's us who make it complicated.

Alexandra Potter

I think a lot of tunes can suffer from being so simple, so either they get over-complicated or their simplicity means the simple way to lay them down becomes the difficulty.

Thom Yorke

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Charles Mingus

Making a record with 'Depeche Mode' is not a simple process. It's quite complicated and long. We have the luxury of time. I'm not sure that's such a good thing when you're being creative.

Dave Gahan

Such is modern computing: everything simple is made too complicated because it's easy to fiddle with; everything complicated stays complicated because it's hard to fix.

Rob Pike

It is easy to be accurate if you have the freedom to be complicated, and it is very easy to be simple if you have the freedom to shade the truth. What's hard is to be simple and very accurate, and that takes work to figure out what are the simple truths that are going to sustain your case.

David Boies

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