Jason Fried Quotes

The desire to explain what is simple by what is complex, what is easy by what is difficult, is a calamity.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

As soon as you are complicated, you are ineffectual.

Like life isn't complicated enough. You should at least be able to follow the signs.

We have complicated every simple gift of the gods.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

I admire writers who can make complicated things simple, but my own talent has been to make simple things complicated.

Progress everywhere today does seem to come so very heavily disguised as Chaos.

Confusion is a word we have invented for an order which is not understood.

Things are simple, it is us human beings that make it difficult.

Perfection is perfectly simple; fouling things up requires true skill.

When I go out to direct a film, every day we prepare too much, we think too much. Knowledge becomes a weight upon wisdom. You know, simple words lost in the quicksand of experience.

At least one thing was consistent about her life: It just kept on getting more complicated.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

Very often, people confuse simple with simplistic. The nuance is lost on most.

Life is simple unless we find a way to make it complicated.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

By using your intelligence, you can sometimes make your problems twice as complicated.

In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

People like definite decisions, / Tidy answers, all the little ravelings / Snipped off, the lint removed, they / Hop happily among their roughs / Calling what they can't clutch insanity / Or saintliness.

Do not think too deeply about these things - gradually they will become clearer to you

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

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

Death is simple. Life is messy. Give me life, the more complicated the better.