Simplification Process Quotes

The important thing about tax reform is you make the tax code less complicated, easier for people to understand.

I suppose if you simplify things, it's going to make it easier to understand.

One of the main functions of politicians - and journalists - is to simplify the world for us.

The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.

The more one knows, the more one simplifies.

What better model of a synthesis than a nocturnal dream? Dreams simplify, don't they?

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Sometimes simple things are the most difficult things to achieve.

The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges.

Artistic accounts involve severe abbreviations of what reality will force upon us.

It takes a long time to make it simple.

The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.

The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.

If we are inclined to forget how much there is in the world besides that which we anticipate, then works of art are perhaps a little to blame, for in them we find at work the same process of simplification or selection as in the imagination.

My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

When a truth is necessary, the reason for it can be found by analysis, that is, by resolving it into simpler ideas and truths until the primary ones are reached. It is this way that in mathematics speculative theorems and practical canons are reduced by analysis to definitions, axioms and postulates.

When you take something extremely broad, then it is not a work of expansion or work of compression. It's hard because you have to decide what to throw out.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

All propaganda or popularization involves a putting of the complex into the simple, but such a move is instantly deconstructive. For if the complex can be put into the simple, then it cannot be as complex as it seemed in the first place; and if the simple can be an adequate medium of such complexity, then it cannot after all be as simple as all that.