Paul Kantner Quotes

Those who write clearly have readers, those who write obscurely have commentators.

The subject of the lesson itself should not become more important that the underlying basis. Drawing thus provides first the written forms of letters and then their printed forms. Based on drawing, we build up to reading.

Transparency doesn't mean much if the consumer doesn't understand what they're looking at.

Whenever a poet or preacher, chief or wizard spouts gibberish, the human race spends centuries deciphering the message.

You can't make the incomprehensible comprehensible without losing it completely

i can't understand her" well son, you might as well try to understand the sun". derived form the book:fires of heaven by robert jordan.

Power to translate is the test of having really understood one's own meaning.

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

I want people to make sense of what I'm talking about.

I don't feel it incumbent on me to make sense of everything.

Format is just the language. Content is the only thing that is important. Form is like handwriting. Whether you write in a scribble or clean handwriting or type it, the content remains the same. You want to write in clean hand, in a kind of a clear format only because it is aesthetically pleasing. I can scribble, that's also fine.

I can only do the best I can from what I read from the book, and hopefully it translates on camera.

I wrote my friend a letter using a highlighting pen. But he could not read it, he thought I was trying to show him certain parts of a piece of paper.

You do not really understand something unless you can explain it to your grandmother.

If I wanted you to understand it, I would have explained it better.

If you can't summarize an issue on one page, you don't understand the issue well enough.

Yeah. I mean, acknowledging is easy. Something happened or it didn't. But understanding... that's where things get sticky.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

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.

The simpler the message, the broader the meaning, in many respects.

I wish they would use English instead of Greek words. When I want to know why a leaf is green, they tell me it is coloured by "chlorophyll," which at first sounds very instructive; but if they would only say plainly that a leaf is coloured green by a thing which is called "green leaf," we should see more precisely how far we had got.

It is my contention that the process of reading is part of the process of writing, the necessary completion without which writing can hardly be said to exist.

I see woefully obscure poetry as simply a kind of verbal rudeness.

Sounded like a load of waffle to me." "There was some important stuff hidden in the waffle.