Richard Branson Quotes

The fact that something is actually understandable and relatable doesn't mean that it's unsophisticated or banal. It just means that it's crystal-clear. And if you can't explain it, that doesn't necessarily mean it's so brilliant that ordinary mortals can't fathom it. It might just mean that it makes no sense.

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.

The more you explain it, the more I don't understand it.

Educators take something simple and make it complicated. Communicators take something complicated and make it simple.

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

I am a firm believer that if you can explain it to a kid, you're on the right track.

I'm always telling my students that if they can't explain what they are doing, to their grandmothers, then they probably don't understand it themselves.

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.

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

I cannot be understood in three minutes.

There is really nothing more to say-except why. But since why is difficult to handle, one must take refuge in how.

A little inaccuracy sometimes saves tons of explanation.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

If you can’t explain something simply, you don’t understand it.

Maybe I'm just a slow learner or something, but I like to have things laid out as plainly and simply as possible.

I love the challenge of taking these really complicated subjects and trying to humanise them.

Facts are often complicated.

Explaining something makes it go away, so to speak; what's important is left after you have explained everything else.

Simplicity before understanding is simplistic; simplicity after understanding is simple.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Any effort... to make the obscure obvious is likely to be unappealing, for the penalty of failure is confusion while the reward of success is banality.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

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.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.