Douglas Adams Quotes

What I mean is that if you really want to understand something, the best way is to try and explain it to someone else. That forces you to sort it out in your mind. And the more slow and dim-witted your pupil, the more you have to break things down into more and more simple ideas. And that's really the essence of programming. By the time you've sorted out a complicated idea into little steps that even a stupid machine can deal with, you've learned something about it yourself... The teacher usually learns more than the pupils. Isn't that true?

If you would thoroughly know anything, teach it to others.

The more knowledge you've got, the more understanding you have, the better you are able to implement and pass it on to others.

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.

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

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

It helps you as a person when you're teaching something to somebody to understand it even better.

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

We learn by teaching.

Teaching someone that doesn't know something forces you to think about almost every single aspect of it, including parts of it that you could sort of take for granted.

Knowledge people and service people learn the most when they teach .

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.

There is no better way to learn than to teach.

Transmitting information is easier than creating understanding.

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

I can't talk about anything or write about anything if I don't understand it. So a lot of the stuff that I go through and a lot of the time that I spend is understanding.

I am a writer of books in retrospect. I talk in order to understand; I teach in order to learn.

What we find in books is like the fire in our hearths. We fetch it from our neighbors, we kindle it at home, we communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

I've always loved teaching and reading and talking to people, and my grandfather was a professor.

If we want to enlighten people or give them new thoughts and ideas, we have to be willing to do the work of educating them.

Be brief, that the mind may catch thy precepts, and the more easily retain them.

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

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 have found that the more I teach those who want to learn, the more I learn.

When you teach, you learn.