Bjarke Ingels Quotes

To ask for an explanation is to explain the obscure by the more obscure.

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

Those things which I am saying now may be obscure, yet they will be made clearer in their proper place.

What is grand is necessarily obscure to weak men. That which can be made explicit to the idiot is not worth my care.

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

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

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

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.

If something can't be explained on the back of an envelope, it's rubbish.

If your work is so smart that only smart people get it, it's not that smart.

An expert is someone who takes something you already know and makes it sound confusing.

Explanation changes whatever is explained into something explainable.

Not to create confusion in what is clear, but to throw light on what is obscure.

If we go on explaining we shall cease to understand one another.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

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

To be honest everything goes over my head a bit.

What I value in books is lucidity. I want the language to be rich; I love lexical fireworks on the page, but I have to know what it means. I want to be surprised and delighted, not merely baffled.

Help the man-in-the-street make sense of the bewildering.

Where questions of style and exposition are concerned I try to follow a simple maxim: if you can't say it clearly you don't understand it yourself.

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.

If somebody writes clearly, you can pretty much tell immediately if something is shallow or deep, whereas if they write with all this duckweed on the surface, you can't tell if the stream is one inch deep or a hundred fathoms.

You're assisting the audience to understand; you're giving them a bridge or an access. And if you don't give them that, if you keep it more abstract, it's almost more pure. It's a cooler thing.