Terry Pratchett Quotes

Sometimes technique works better than a whole lot of other things.

Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

Make everything as simple as possible but not simpler.

There never yet has been a country which became powerful without knowledge. A man by his own strength alone cannot successfully combat a tiger, but by his intelligence, he can devise means to entrap him.

Everything in strategy is very simple, but that does not mean everything is very easy.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

We have to deal with the world as we find it. The world of what it takes to get this done.

I try to force myself to travel light; otherwise, I tend to bring a million things that I end up never using!

I work my angles and things like that.

I'm the opposite of a gearhead. I like simplicity. I use what works, and the only time I change it is when I have to.

One thing I've learned over my career is that simplicity is the key: on the field, off as well.

I just deal with what's at hand.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

A brute force solution that works is better than an elegant solution that doesn't work.

Brilliant strategy is the best route to desirable ends with available means.

I believe in anything that works.

His grandfather had often told him that he tried too hard to move trees when a wiser man would walk around them.

Always take the short cut; and that is the rational one. Therefore say and do everything according to soundest reason.

To be always ready a man must be able to cut a knot, for everything cannot be untied.

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

No matter how smart you are, you're smarter if you take the easy ways when they are available.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

Where the lion's skin will not reach, you must patch it out with the fox's.

For her, choices were simple; either there was an action she could take to improve the situation, in which case she took it, or there was not, and everything else said on the subject was so much meaningless noise.