Steve Wozniak Quotes

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

What we do as a society is seek simple answers.

The easiest way to solve a problem is to pick an easy one.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

There are many people who want simple solutions, but there are none ... nor will there be.

Keep it simple. Help individuals. That’s what we do.

Many things complicated by nature are restored by reason.

There are no simple solutions to today’s problems.

Nothing can astound an American. It has often been asserted that the word "impossible" is not a French one. People have evidently been deceived by the dictionary. In America, all is easy, all is simple; and as for mechanical difficulties, they are overcome before they arise. Between Barbicane's proposition and its realization no true Yankee would have allowed even the semblance of a difficulty to be possible. A thing with them is no sooner said than done.

The world is complicated. But does every problem require a complicated solution?

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

In the future, as in the past, the great ideas [of mathematics] must be simplifying ideas, the creator must always be one who clarifies, for himself, and for others, the most complicated issues of formulas and concepts.

Let us draw a lesson from nature, which always works by short ways. When the fruit is ripe, it falls.

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

Sometimes the easiest way to get something done is to be a little naive about it.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

Cutting through complexity to find a solution runs through four predictable stages: determine a goal, find the highest-leverage approach, discover the ideal technology for that approach, and in the meantime, make the smartest application of the technology that you already have - whether it's something sophisticated, like a drug, or something simpler, like a bednet.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.