A Quote by Stephen J. Dubner
The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?
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Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'
Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!
We try to solve very complicated problems without letting people know how complicated the problem was.
No problem is so complicated that you cannot make it more complicated.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way did not become still more complicated.
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
I believe strongly that characters are five-dimensional, and they're complicated, and life is complicated, and people are complicated.
Puerto Rico is complicated. The people are complicated. The history is complicated. The story of the United States' relationship to Puerto Rico is complicated.
No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.
Maybe from the outside, Belgium looks complicated to understand, but from the inside, actually, every country is complicated.
But violence is news, to a certain extent, and people don't want complicated news. Because as soon as you realize things are complicated, your life becomes more complicated.
I Am... I Said is a very complicated song and its complicated probably because my feelings were very complicated when I wrote it.
My parents were complicated people. They had a complicated relationship. My home was very, very complicated.
I remember somebody saying, "I feel really bad for kids growing up around iPads right now. It's just too complicated. Life's too complicated." I think, yeah, but I remember being a kid and holding up a new piece of technology that was made in the '80s and my grandparents going, "Oh, it's too complicated." It didn't seem complicated to me.
In the astronaut business - the shuttle is a very complicated vehicle; it's the most complicated flying machine ever built. And in the astronaut business, we have a saying, which is, 'There is no problem so bad that you can't make it worse.'
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.
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