I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.
It's paradoxical that things that are hard for people are easy for the computer, and things that are hard for the computer, any child can understand.
All science requires mathematics. The knowledge of mathematical things is almost innate in us. This is the easiest of sciences, a fact which is obvious in that no one's brain rejects it; for laymen and people who are utterly illiterate know how to count and reckon.
I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.
Time is but the measure of the difficulty of a conception. Pure thought has scarcely any need of time, since it perceives the two ends of an idea almost at the same moment.
Word games are very easy for me.
To predict the behavior of ordinary people in advance, you only have to assume that they will always try to escape a disagreeable situation with the smallest possible expenditure of intelligence.
The voice of a person thinking, discovering, revising, is ever-present without any loss in grace or ease.
Another person who's smarter than I. What a relief to not have to be the smartest guy anymore.
Music is a current of hard choices made to seem easy by the mind.
It is always easier to believe than to deny. Our minds are naturally affirmative.
To accept opinions is to gain the good solid feeling of being correct without having to think.
To do things today exactly the way you did them yesterday saves thinking.
Our ability to perceive the world around us seems so effortless that we tend to take it for granted.
People will believe anything if it means they can go on with their lives and not have to think too hard about it.
If you can differentiate a dead chicken, you can differentiate anything.
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
The most extraordinary thing about writing is that when you've struck the right vein, tiredness goes. It must be an effort, thinking wrong.
Harold, like the rest of us, had many impressions which saved him the trouble of distinct ideas.
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there. It's very easy to recall and remember because it's written so well.
Oh! To not need cognitive justification for every single thing. Wouldn't that be a life?
Unbelief is as much of a choice as belief is. What makes it in many ways more appealing is that whereas to believe in something requires some measure of understanding and effort, not to believe doesn't require much of anything at all.
You know that something is really well written when you have to think so little about the words that are coming out of your mouth, and you're able to dwell in your own headspace to get there.
It was a pity thoughts always ran the easiest way, like water in old ditches.
Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.
