A Quote by H. L. Mencken

Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

H. L. Mencken

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H. L. Mencken
American - Writer
September 12, 1880 - January 29, 1956

A favorite means of escaping the solution to any problem is to declare it too complex for solution. This absolves us from attempting solution. ... Any problem is too complex to solve when we do not wish to accept the conditions of solution. Solution is possible where acceptance is ready.

Pearl S. Buck

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

Anton Chekhov

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Agatha Christie

For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.

Derek Landy

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

H. L. Mencken

For every problem, there exists a simple and elegant solution which is absolutely wrong.

Ellet J. Waggoner

The solution to a problem - a story that you are unable to finish - is the problem. It isn't as if the problem is one thing and the solution something else. The problem, properly understood = the solution. Instead of trying to hide or efface what limits the story, capitalize on that very limitation. State it, rail against it.

Susan Sontag

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.

Terry Eagleton

There's a solution to every problem. I just have to find the right solution to fix this problem

Brock Lesnar

The Shirky Principle declares that complex solutions, like a company, or an industry, can become so dedicated to the problem they are the solution to, that often they inadvertently perpetuate the problem.

Clay Shirky

You may have problems to solve but for every problem there is always a solution. It's a positive-and-negative thing: you can't have a problem without there being a solution. There always is. Your job is to find it.

Brian Sibley

It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

Ivan Sutherland

We have reached a moment in our history where we think that every problem in America has to have a federal government solution. Every problem in America does not have a federal government solution. In fact, most problems in America do not have a federal government solution and many of them are created by the federal government to begin with.

Marco Rubio

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

Coco Chanel

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