Understandability Quotes

Speak properly, and in as few words as you can, but always plainly; for the end of speech is not ostentation, but to be understood.

Legislating should be done in a manner that is understandable to the governed.

Longfellow has his popularity, in the main, because he tells his story or his idea so that one needs nothing but his verses to understand it.

Fame is a dangerous thing. It's what the post-industrial society wants. They want fame and many followers on Twitter. But to really make the world understandable, that challenge is remaining.

I just like it when I can understand things, and the simpler it is, the easier it is to understand.

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Though I'll admit readability suffers slightly.

I wanted it to be as readable as possible. I had the ambition of reaching a broader audience.

People react positively when things are clear and understandable.

The unread is always better than the unreadable.

It's up to the artist to use language that can be understood, not hide it in some private code... obscurity is usually the refuge of incompetence.

The minute a thing is long and complicated, it confuses. Whoever wrote the Ten Commandments made 'em short. They may not always be kept, but they are understood.

Hymns should have unity, graduation and mutual dependence in the thoughts, a conscious progress, a sense of completeness and be easily understood.

I certainly am interested in accessibility, clarity, and immediacy.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

The argument is not between adding features and simplicity, between adding capability and usability. The real issue is about design: designing things that have the power required for the job while maintaining understandabili ty, the feeling of control, and the pleasure of accomplishment.

It's surprising that the world is understandable to the extent that it is.

I think entrepreneurs have a great opportunity to think of how to make things more understandable, simple and beautiful.

No efforts of mine could avail to make the book easy reading.

I think 'accessible' just means that the reader can walk into the poem without difficulty. The poem is not, as someone put it, deflective of entry.

From our point of view, we're just curious, we're poking around and having fun. If it's science, if it's accurate, if it's not accurate, we did the best we can to keep things clean and understandable, but we're just having fun, so sue us if we got something wrong.