Terry Pratchett Quotes

The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine.

Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

Friendship is a simple thing, and yet complicated; friendship is on the surface, something natural, something taken for granted, and yet underneath one could find worlds.

It's all very simple. But maybe because it's so simple, it's also hard.

Science talks about very simple things, and asks hard questions about them. As soon as things become too complex, science can't deal with them... But it's a complicated matter: Science studies what's at the edge of understanding, and what's at the edge of understanding is usually fairly simple. And it rarely reaches human affairs. Human affairs are way too complicated.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Oh child, your language is so utterly simple and limited that it has the affect of extreme complication. -Aunt Beast

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

Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

It is not at all simple to understand the simple.

She saw something awful in the very simplicity she failed to understand.

There is more going on beneath the surface than we think, and more going on in little, finite moments of time than we would guess.

One of the great breakthroughs of evolution theory is that you start with simple things and they will grow into complexity.

It's really complex to make something simple.

The Simple Life is not a simple life.

How could anything so sublimely complicated not be the simple answer?

Nature's action is complex: and nothing is gained in the long run by pretending that it is simple, and trying to describe it in a series of elementary propositions.

Nature's way is simple and easy, but men prefer the intricate and artificial.

Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.

The method of science depends on our attempts to describe the world with simple theories: theories that are complex may become untestable, even if they happen to be true. Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification-the art of discerning what we may with advantage omit.

To the scientist, the universality of physical laws makes the cosmos a marvelously simple place. By comparison, human nature-the psychologist's domain-is infinitely more daunting.

It's simple until you make it complicated.

One rule is to not use complicated techniques unless they are necessary to achieve your goal. First, use simple movements, and if they don't work, then introduce the more complex ones.