Dave Barry Quotes

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

I hate having to read the manual.

When things are too easy I lose interest in them so I find ways to complicate them to get myself interested.

If it were easy it would have happened already.

'Programming' is a four-letter word.

Everything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.

They say Einstein died while he was still trying to figure out gravity. I think I'm going to die still trying to figure out some of the things about Blink.

Golf is not easy.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

I sometimes try to write something that is actually really simple and I can't do it. So, then, it's not simple anymore. It's really hard and it gets all messed up. I sometimes sit down and try to write a song with just three chords and it doesn't work.

I don't know how to play easy.

For me, the iPhone is harder than reading Faust.

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

Negotiating is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm us with a sense of mystery.

Putting is a fascinating, aggravating, wonderful, terrible and almost incomprehensible part of the game of golf.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

All shall be done, but it may be harder than you think.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

But all of my efforts served only to make me better acquainted with the difficulty, which in itself was something.

Ethics seems a morass which we have to cross, but get hopelessly bogged in when we make the attempt.

I couldn't tell you exactly what I like about golf. Just when you think you've got it mastered it lets you know you haven't. I'm just crazy enough to do it.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

This was the tricky bit. The really tricky bit, trickiness cubed.