False Simplicity Quotes

There is always an easy solution to every problem - neat, plausible, and wrong.

What is simple is wrong, and what is complicated cannot be understood.

For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong.

Any explanation or logic that explains everything so easily has a hidden trap in it. I'm speaking from experience. Somebody once said if it's something a single book can explain, it's not worth having explained. What I mean is don't leap to any conclusions.

… steer clear of bogus simplicity

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

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

Whenever things sound easy, it turns out there's one part you didn't hear.

The constant struggle in mature life, I think, is to accept the necessity of tragedy and conflict, and not to try to escape to some falsely simple solution which does not include these more somber complexities.