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But the fact a person denies that he is theorising is no reason for taking him at his word and failing to investigate what implicit theory is involved in his statements. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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The implications of these considerations justify the statement that all empirically verifiable knowledge even the commonsense knowledge of everyday life - involves implicitly, if not explicitly, systematic theory in this sense. ↗

— Talcott Parsons

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. ↗

— Alan Perlis

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That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains. ↗

— Steve Jobs

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Purity and simplicity are the two wings with which man soars above the earth and all temporary nature. ↗

— Thomas a Kempis

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I'm a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That's my theory. ↗

— Graham Russell

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The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. ↗

— George Santayana

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French and German illustrate the misleading character of apparent grammatical simplicity just as well. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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These examples of the lack of simplicity in English and French, all appearances to the contrary, could be multiplied almost without limit and apply to all national languages. ↗

— Edward Sapir

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The English language has a deceptive air of simplicity; so have some little frocks; but they are both not the kind of thing you can run up in half an hour with a machine. ↗

— Dorothy L. Sayers

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