A Quote by Pete Seeger

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Pete Seeger

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Pete Seeger
American - Musician
May 3, 1919 - January 27, 2014

Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.

Woody Guthrie

I'm all in favor of the democratic principle that one idiot is as good as one genius, but I draw the line when someone takes the next step and concludes that two idiots are better than one genius.

Leo Szilard

UNIX is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate its simplicity.

Dennis Ritchie

Genius is the ability to reduce the complicated to the simple.

C. W. Ceram

The role of genius is not to complicate the simple, but to simplify the complicated.

Criss Jami

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

Give me a smart idiot over a stupid genius any day.

Samuel Goldwyn

A 'nidiot' is something different from an idiot. An idiot is someone whose problems are caused by not concentrating enough. A 'nidiot' is someone who makes his life more complicated by thinking too much rather than not enough. I'm not an idiot, but I'm definitely a 'nidiot'!

Jon Richardson

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

Terry Pratchett

Romantic Egoist What's better, an idiot who never tries... or an idiot who at least takes a shot?

Bisco Hatori

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

Charles Mingus

Baseball is the favorite American sport because it's so slow. Any idiot can follow it. And just about any idiot can play it.

Gore Vidal

Better is possible. It does not take genius. It takes diligence. It takes moral clarity. It takes ingenuity. And above all, it takes a willingness to try.

Atul Gawande

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.