#simple

You expect far too much of a first sentence. Think of it as analogous to a good country breakfast: what we want is something simple, but nourishing to the imagination. ↗

— Larry McMurtry

#breakfast #country #expect #far #first

Women have simple tastes. They get pleasure out of the conversation of children in arms and men in love. ↗

— H. L. Mencken

#arms #children #conversation #get #love

I wanted to portray very, very dark subject matter and a deceptively complex story in the brightest colours and simplest lines possible to leave the readers reeling. ↗

— Mark Millar

#colours #complex #dark #deceptively #i

It is very difficult for people to believe the simple fact that every persecutor was once a victim. Yet it should be very obvious that someone who was allowed to feel free and strong from childhood does not have the need to humiliate another person. ↗

— Alice Miller

#another #believe #childhood #difficult #does

This is a tricky domain because, unlike simple arithmetic, to solve a calculus problem - and in particular to perform integration - you have to be smart about which integration technique should be used: integration by partial fractions, integration by parts, and so on. ↗

— Marvin Minsky

#arithmetic #because #calculus #domain #fractions

Leon Theremin's original designs are elegant, ingenious and effective. As electronics goes, the theremin is very simple. But there are so many subtleties hidden in the details of the design. It's like a great sonnet, or a painting, or a speech, that is perfectly done on more than one level. ↗

— Robert Moog

#designs #details #done #effective #electronics

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution. ↗

— An Wang

#complicated #comprehensible #form #how #matter

No endeavor that is worthwhile is simple in prospect; if it is right, it will be simple in retrospect. ↗

— Edward Teller

#prospect #retrospect #right #simple #will

I write songs. Then, I record them. And, later, maybe I perform them on stage. That's what I do. That's my job. Simple. ↗

— Van Morrison

#i do #i write #job #later #maybe

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple. ↗

— Alice Munro

#easy #endless #i #just #mean