Lou Barlow Quotes

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

A rule to live by: I won't use anything I can't explain in five minutes.

Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.

If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough.

There is nothing clever about confusion.

Sometimes it's easier to understand things than it is to figure them out

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

The understanding of some men is clear, that of others brilliant. The former illumines its surroundings; the latter obscures them.

The greatest ownership of all is to glance around and understand.

There's no idea that can't be explained to a thoughtful 14-year-old. If the thoughtful 14-year-old doesn't get it, it is your fault, not the 14-year-old's.

The more a subject is understood, the more briefly it may be explained.

Clarity proceeds Mastery!

Clarity breeds mastery.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

The key to all knowledge comes in words of just one syllable, apparently.... There's only the last page left to write on. I'll fill it with words of just one syllable. I love. I have loved. I will love.

I'm confused, and brilliant books help me to be less so.

We should do whatever we can to cut through the scum that has grown on our understanding and rediscover freshness.

Confusion is what we're living with - not being able to make sense of what's happening to us from day to day. Whereas making sense is what we're aiming for - making sense.

Knowledge has organizing power inherit in it. It is simply enough to know.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

Because your question searches for deep meaning, I shall explain in simple words