“You don’t understand a problem until you can simplify it.”
| — | Leo Brodie |
“Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray.”
| — | Samuel T. Redwine |
“It takes the energy in one lump of coal to move 1 MB of information across the net.”
| — | Jay Walker at TED 2008 |
“Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious, and adding the meaningful.”
| — | John Maeda |
“The more labels you have for yourself, the dumber they make you.”
| — | Paul Graham |
“This is a time for protest and activism for sure, but it is also a time for subtlety, ambiguity and complexity.”
| — | Teju Cole |
Exploring an Alternate Universe
Now, little by little, I could begin to enjoy the unprecedented colors and plays of shapes that persisted behind my closed eyes. Kaleidoscopic, fantastic images surged in on me, alternating, variegated, opening and then closing themselves in circles and spirals, exploding in colored fountains, rearranging and hybridizing themselves in constant flux. It was particularly remarkable how every acoustic perception, such as the sound of a door handle or a passing automobile, became transformed into optical perceptions. Every sound generated a vividly changing image, with its own consistent form and color.
Simplistic programming is underrated
Really smart people have no need to show off. If you are showing off, you are broadcasting that you aren’t really smart.
