Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

  • -- Edward de Bono 爱德华·德·波诺

处理复杂性是一种低效且不必要的时间、注意力和精力的浪费。当事情本来可以简单的时候,却没有任何理由把它复杂化。

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Every philosophical problem, when it is subjected to the necessary analysis and justification, is found either to be not really philosophical at all, or else to be, in the sense in which we are using the word, logical.

每一个哲学问题,当它经过必要的分析和论证时,就会发现,要么不是真正的哲学问题,要么就是我们所说的逻辑问题。

I thought that my life would be spent working in a bookstore, teaching community college, and making music in my spare time that no one would be willing to listen to.

我想我的一生将会在书店工作,教社区大学,在我的业余时间制作没有人愿意听的音乐。

Business, more than any other occupation, is a continual dealing with the future; it is a continual calculation, an instinctive exercise in foresight.

商业比任何其他职业都更需要不断地与未来打交道;这是一种持续不断的计算,是对远见卓识的本能练习。

Kids are capable of handling a lot more than you think if you are willing to commit some time.

如果你愿意投入一些时间,孩子们能够处理的事情比你想象的要多得多。

The orthogonal features, when combined, can explode into complexity.

如果将正交特征组合在一起,就会变得非常复杂。

When it comes to the Internet, people like dealing with people.

说到互联网,人们喜欢和人打交道。

Our role as humans is to recognize the complexity of others.

我们人类的角色是认识到他人的复杂性。