Darren Remington Quotes

I have often been amused by our vulgar tendency to take complex issues, with solutions at neither extreme of a continuum of possibilities, and break them into dichotomies, assigning one group to one pole and the other to an opposite end, with no acknowledgment of subtleties and intermediate positions and nearly always with moral opprobrium attached to opponents.

Reductionism is merciless.

The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; it is this.

Our society has lost its taste for complexity and nuance…. We want simple answers …. We have almost disabled our politicians from speaking.

People tend to simplify things.

Accusations fit on a bumper sticker. The truth is longer.

Vulgarized knowledge characteristically gives birth to a feeling that everything is understandable and explained. It is like a system of bridges built over chasms. One can travel boldly ahead over these bridges, ignoring the chasms. It is forbidden to look down into them; but that, alas, does not alter the fact that they exist.

… steer clear of bogus simplicity

It is almost a rule that the more complex a man is, the simpler his billing. A person with a retrospective ability gone rampant often would be called an historian. Similarly, one to whom reality doesn't seem to make sense gets dubbed a philosopher.

Critics try to pin so many different inaccuracies on me and my music; they look at the complicated things and try to simplify them. They think they can nail your whole life down just by knowing the bare bones of your history in partaking in 10 minutes of conversation.

Football just isn't that complicated.

Some things can be quite stupid yet interesting. Life can be like that.

We must resist the pressures of others to soundbite our complicated, nuanced experiences.

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

No one-liner can ever be optimal.

I think you'll find it's a bit more complicated than that.

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

What is the alternative to understanding the complexity of the world?

Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena.

No, Blitz. That's oversimplifying it.

In any case, the idea of giving "all" of reality is overly simple and absurd.

We fail when we try to give simple answers to complicated problems.

Reality is far more complex and messy than many of the grander themes and explanations would have us believe.

You don't have to make things harder then they have to be just to prove a point.

The nature of oratory is such that there has always been a tendency among politicians and clergymen to oversimplify complex matters. From a pulpit or a platform even the most conscientious of speakers finds it very difficult to tell the whole truth.