Horace Quotes

I asked for more information because I am unable to unscrew the inscrutable.

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

There seems to be some perverse human characteristic that likes to make easy things difficult.

In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word 'frustration'.

Each success buys an admission ticket to a more difficult problem.

Negotiating is like trying to pick up mercury with a fork.

Climbing, for me, is all about solving the magnitude of the problem. The best projects are the ones with big question marks hanging over them.

I feel like what I'm after is not easy for me to find, and to want it to be easy... it would be absurd for me to have that ambition.

It's really hard like when people ask me questions like 'So what is your life like?' I mean, I almost feel like saying, 'Do you have 10 years for me to explain it?'

In the beginning, learning a new position is not easy.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Out of love for mankind, and out of despair at my embarrassing situation, seeing that I had accomplished nothing and was unable to make anything easier than it had already been made, and moved by a genuine interest in those who make everything easy, I conceived it as my task to create difficulties everywhere.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

A difficulty for every solution.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

The simplest questions are the most difficult.

I don't have any solution, but I certainly admire the problem.

It's much easier to point out the problem than it is to say just how it should be solved.

Intelligence is like four-wheel drive. It only allows you to get stuck in more remote places.

Our ignorance can be divided into problems and mysteries. When we face a problem, we may not know its solution, but we have insight, increasing knowledge, and an inkling of what we are looking for. When we face a mystery, however, we can only stare in wonder and bewilderment, not knowing what an explanation would even look like.

Golf is deceptively simple, endlessly complicated. A child can play it well and a grown man can never master it. It is almost a science, yet it is a puzzle with no answer.

I can't get it out," she said. "Just pull at it." "It hurts. It's throbbing." "Pull harder." "I can't! It's truly stuck. I need something to make it slippery. Do you have some sort of lubricant nearby?" "No." "Not anything?" "Much as it may surprise you, we've never needed lubricant in the library before now.

Don't tell me this is a difficult problem. If it weren't difficult, it wouldn't be a problem.