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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


#fact #failing #him #his #implicit

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


#considerations #empirically #even #everyday #everyday life

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


#been #clean #complex #end #focus

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


Thomas a Kempis


#earth #man #nature #purity #simplicity

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


#big #big fan #complicated #especially #fan

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


George Santayana


#foe #man #simplicity #sophistication #spirit

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


Edward Sapir


#character #french #german #grammatical #illustrate

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


#appearances #apply #contrary #could #english

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


#both #deceptive #english #english language #half






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