Simple Solutions Quotes

• When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

  Steve Jobs

  Inspirational, Persistence, Simple

  Newsweek Interview on October 14, 2006. "Steve Jobs Legacy: His Stanford University Address & More Great Quotes" by, www.thedailybeast.com. October 07, 2011.

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• There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Business, Neat And Tidy, Wrong Answers

  H.L. Mencken (2012). “Mencken Chrestomathy”, p.443, Vintage

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• For every problem, there is a solution that is simple, neat, and wrong.

  H. L. Mencken

  Freedom, Simple, Ethics

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• When the solution is simple, God is answering.

  Albert Einstein

  Love, Life, Positive

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.

  Charles Mingus

  Inspirational, Inspiring, Music

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• It's very satisfying to take a problem we thought difficult and find a simple solution. The best solutions are always simple.

  Ivan Sutherland

  Simple, Problem, Difficult

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• To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

  Agatha Christie

  Simple, Problem, Solutions

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• The most exciting phrase to hear in science, the one that heralds new discoveries, is not 'Eureka!' but 'That's funny...'

  Isaac Asimov

  Inspirational, Funny, Motivational

  "Betting On a Bass That Belts Them Out; Singing Fish Becomes Season’s Unlikely Hit" by Darragh Johnson, The Washington Post, July 30, 2000.

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• The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

  Anton Chekhov

  Simple, Simplicity, Problem

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• Every complex problem has a simple solution that doesn't work.

  H. L. Mencken

  Simple, Problem, Complexes

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• It's a simple solution. You change one thing, and suddenly you've changed everything.

  Rebecca Onie

  Simple, Growth, You've Changed

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• Beware of people preaching simple solutions to complex problems. If the answer was easy someone more intelligent would have thought of it a long time ago - complex problems invariably require complex and difficult solutions.

  Steve Herbert

  Wisdom, Intelligent, Simple

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• Making the simple complicated is commonplace.

  Charles Mingus

  Creativity, Simple, Plain Language

  Charles Mingus' statement in Mainliner Magazine (July 1977); later quoted in Olivia Bertagnolli "Creativity and the writing process" (p. 182), 1982.

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• I'm always on the lookout for those good, simple solutions to everyday problems.

  Martha Stewart

  Simple, Everyday Problems, Solutions

  "Discovering Everyday Good Things". The Academy of Achievement Interview, www.achievement.org. June 2, 1995.

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• Don't go overboard with exotic or complex ways to paint. Stick to simple solutions, unless there is a good reason to do otherwise.

  Richard Schmid

  Simple, Exotic, Way

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• The positivists have a simple solution: the world must be divided into that which we can say clearly and the rest, which we had better pass over in silence. But can anyone conceive of a more pointless philosophy, seeing that what we can say clearly amounts to next to nothing? If we omitted all that is unclear, we would probably be left completely uninteresting and trivial tautologies.

  Werner Heisenberg

  Philosophy, Simple, Silence

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• I'd be wary of simple solutions to complex problems.

  Jeb Bush

  Simple, Problem, Complexes

  "Is the Age of Bush Over? Jeb Needs to Step Up His Game If He Is Going to Take Back the GOP" By David Paul, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 29, 2013.

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• The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.

  Sylvia Plath

  Struggle, Simple, Thinking

  Sylvia Plath (2011). “Letters Home”, p.301, Faber & Faber

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• Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

  Amitai Etzioni

  Simple, Agendas, Faces

  Amitai Etzioni (1993). “The spirit of community: rights, responsibilities, and the communitarian agenda”, Crown

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• What I have learned from the teachers with whom I have worked is that, just as there is no simple solution to the arms race, there is no simple answer to how to work with children in the classroom. It is a matter of being present as a whole person, with your own thoughts and feelings, and of accepting children as whole people, with their own thoughts and feelings. It's a matter of working very hard to find out what those thoughts and feelings are, as a starting point for developing a view of a world in which people are as much concerned about other people security as they are about their own

  Eleanor Duckworth

  Teacher, Children, Simple

  Eleanor Ruth Duckworth (2006). “"The Having of Wonderful Ideas" and Other Essays on Teaching and Learning”

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• The problem is some of the populism on both the far left and the far right, it can make a Tweet but not make a policy. And, you know, when you are dealing with issues that are as important and serious as this, I understand why people search for simple solutions.

  Tony Blair

  Simple, Issues, People

  "Tony Blair Works To Define The Problem Of Islamist Extremism". Interview with Steve Inskeep, www.npr.org. February 25, 2016.

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• History will help to remedy intellectual faults such as excessive concentration on one line of thought, absence of understanding for other points of view, belief in simple solutions, lack of balance of mind, absence of an imaginative understanding.

  Geoffrey Elton

  Simple, Views, Understanding

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• The problem of aging is the problem of living. There is no simple solution.

  Coco Chanel

  Simple, Age, Aging

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• The struggle against poverty in the world and the challenge of cutting wealthy country emissions all has a single, very simple solution... Here it is: Put a price on carbon.

  Al Gore

  Country, Struggle, Cutting

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• I love when problems have simple solutions. Cold medicine. Umbrellas. Condoms. Tax incentives & subsidies attracting favored industries.

  Greg Fitzsimmons

  Simple, Medicine, Subsidies

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