Top 113 Simplification Quotes & Sayings

The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine.

We should always bear in mind that numbers represent a simplification of reality.

The simplification of anything is always sensational.

People are so complex and multidimensional that raising someone to 'hero' status is too great a simplification.

Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

I never want to dumb it down. If there's any simplification, it's just a simplification to make sure that the reader understands the point that the character is trying to make.

We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the surest guarantee of readiness for farther progress.

We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

Intellectuals ... regard over-simplification as the original sin of the mind and have no use for the slogans, the unqualified assertions and sweeping generalizations.

Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

The extreme positions of the Crossfire Syndrome require extreme simplification - framing the debate in terms which ignore the real issues.

It's hard to see any institutional structure that stands in the way of the homogenization and simplification of these supply chains in international capitalism, unless it is the nation state.

To minds of a certain cast there is nothing so captivating as simplification and generalization.

To say that the whole of the industrial experience of Europe and America just shows the rewards of exploiting the Third World is a gross simplification.

Totalitarianism spells simplification: an enormous reduction in the variety of aims, motives, interests, human types, and, above all, in the categories and units of power.

I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this way: one of techniques of modern art is simplification, and that I must therefore simplify this film.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification.

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

One of the most important skills of the economist, therefore, is that of simplification of the model. Two important methods of simplification have been developed by economists. One is the method of partial equilibrium analysis (or microeconomics), generally associated with the name of Alfred Marshall and the other is the method of aggregation (or macro-economics), associated with the name of John Maynard Keynes.

The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice to all the facts of a complex situations. On such a theme one can be brief only by omission and simplification. Omission and simplification help us to understand - but help is, in many cases, to understand the wrong thing; for our comprehension may be only of the abbreviator's neatly formulated notions, not of the vast, ramifying reality from which these notions have been so arbitrarily abstracted.

I believe Buddhism to be a simplification of Hinduism and Islam to be a simplification of Xianity.

Culture is a simplification and a lie. It's the currency by which fools navigate the world. Smart people get beyond it.

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection.

Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

One charming characteristic of many flank attacks I could mention is that they do not very often lead to simplification: if the attack is parried, there usually are still opportunities left for initiating action in another sector.

It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness.

One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface.

I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

Twitter is the ultimate service for the mobile age - its simplification and constraint of the publishing medium to 140 characters is perfectly complementary to a mobile experience.

My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages.

Art, science, philosophy, religion -- each offers at best only a crude simplification of actual living experience.

A voluntary simplification of life-styles is not beyond our abilities, but it is probably outside our desires.

Government should concentrate on building up infrastructure and skill development. Simplification of taxation is another important area.

Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.

I believe in metaphysics. I don't believe in God because I think that is a human simplification of the things we can't explain. But I believe in a greater universe.

I do feel that, generally, people will see me and go, "He knows where the good food is," which is an awesome correlative. It's an awesome simplification.

The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony in one's life.

It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

In the first round of work simplification...you can reasonably expect a 30 to 50 percent reduction...To implement the actual simplification, you must question why each step is performed. Typically, you will find that many steps exist in your work flow for no good reason. Often they are there by tradition or because formal procedure ordains it, and nothing practical ordains it.

Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths.

That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of our culture.

The writer's first job is not to have opinions but to tell the truth... and refuse to be an accomplice of lies and misinformation. Literature is the house of nuance and contrariness against the voices of simplification.

A short story is simplification to the highest degree

He can be regarded as the great master of simplification. The art of resolving the tension at the critical moment and in the most effacious way so as to clarify the position as desired is Capablanca's own.

A writer can be subjective, even digressive, or introspective and certainly judgmental. This is a simplification, of course, but as a general rule, it holds true.

Of course, any simplification runs the risk of mutilating reality; but it helps us establish perspectives.

A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

... one of the things the tyrant most cunningly engineers is the gross over-simplification of language, because propaganda requires that the minds of the collective respond primitively to slogans of incitement.

The labeling of nociceptors as pain fibers was not an admirable simplification, but an unfortunate trivialization under the guise of simplification.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

'Richard III' is a really difficult play to film - it's involved, often obscure. I felt it absolutely necessary to do more simplification than I've ever done before.

Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.