According to Bargh, the tension between the complicators and the simplifiers is a good thing in any field of ideas or science. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
They say that in science there are complicators and there are simplifiers, which is a good tension to have in any field of ideas or science. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
Harvard Business School Professor John Quelch has called the chastened former indiscretionary spenders "simplifiers". ❋ Unknown (2009)
Why is this, what was the logic behind the simplification, did the "simplifiers" draw on some older - but simplified - forms that already existed in calligraphy? ❋ Unknown (2008)
Somehow these tax simplifiers never get around to that one. ❋ Unknown (2010)
Brooks does a good job summing up my fear of populists and simplifiers, in business, politics, and elsewhere. ❋ Unknown (2010)
"They say that in science there are complicators and there are simplifiers," says John Bargh, Yale social psychologist known for his early work on the topic of automaticity, and more recently for bringing experimental methodology to the philosophical question of free will. ❋ William Harryman (2009)
But I came face to face quite quickly with an array of increasingly confusing add-ons, options, upgrades, downgrades, simplifiers, complexifiers, added protections, privacy protections, pocket protections, pocket universes and universal health care until I began to not care. ❋ Unknown (2009)
In the past, however, these optimistic simplifiers would have been better off because mortgages and even credit card rules were simpler, says Richard Thaler, a behavioral economist at the University of Chicago and the coauthor of Nudge: Improving Decisions About Health, Wealth, and Happiness. ❋ Unknown (2009)
It is the price we are paying for failing to heed the great historian Jacob Burckhardt, who said "beware the terrible simplifiers". ❋ Unknown (2008)
The Edinburgh Festival is a bit like the internet; they're both vastly complex, information-rich environments that we need guides and simplifiers to help us to manage. ❋ Unknown (2005)
He was the last of the great Central European humanists who sought to realize the dream, first set forth by Jakob Burckhardt in the 1860s, of a Kulturwis-senschaft: a comprehensive, 'scientific' study of Western high culture that was at the same time a defense of that culture against the terrible simplifiers of modern barbar - ism. ❋ Geertz, Clifford (2002)
Herein lies Israel's greatest test: does it have the fortitude, the patience and the judgment to withstand the simplifiers, to preserve a tension that is not always easily borne? ❋ Susser, Bernard (1988)
Of course without generalizations — about the class struggle, imperialism, dependency, etc. — provided by the terrible simplifiers, poor foxes like myself would be condemned to intellectual petit point devoid of pattern. ❋ Carr, Raymond (1981)
I was thinking this morning how in all our studies we had passed quickly over the intellectualists, the simplifiers, the synthesisers and explainers -- back to the sources of philosophy and sanctity. ❋ Will Levington Comfort (1905)
I confess this is an insensibility, not to say stupidity, in the sceptics and simplifiers, which I find very fatiguing. ❋ Unknown (1905)
This race of simplifiers has existed for forty years; but it cannot endure any longer. ❋ Hector Berlioz (1836)
If it is from idleness that the simplifiers pervert them, the energetic orchestral conductor is armed with the necessary authority to compel the fulfilment of their duty. ❋ Hector Berlioz (1836)
Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand. ❋ Unknown (2011)
"Great leaders are almost always great simplifiers, who can cut through argument, debate and doubt, to offer a solution everybody can understand." ❋ Unknown (2011)
Person 1: "Damn ho! Did you hear [Simplifi's] new album?"
Person 2: "Yeah bro! That [shi] was [fye]!" ❋ Opr8r (2021)
[Marie]: "Can you simplify your [essay]?"
Emma:"Sure I'll make it [shorter]." ❋ Ahahahahahahahahq (2020)
Man, I must [simplify] [my self] in order to get into [Pokimane's] fan group. ❋ Steter Girfin (2020)
Her "what do you think about buying a boat or van that we could stay overnight in once in a while?"
Me: "Hmm, if I follow my motto Semper Simplify, I'd ask why would we want to buy an expensive [camper van] or a [live-aboard] boat? Why not use that money on Airbnbs and motel rooms for the rest of our lives and forget the boat and camper [hassle]?" ❋ Granka (2018)
Yo that [nibba] [simplified af] rn
Yeah he fuckin [brain dead] fish ❋ VirusCoreGaming (2018)
"[Holy crap], [Sam] is simplifying" ❋ Sakantti (2022)
