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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She was scrubbing furiously at a line of grease spots which led from the stove towards the door to the dining-room. That was where Henry had held the platter tilted as he carried the steak in yesterday. And yet if she had warned him once about that, she had a thousand times!

她正在拼命地擦一排从炉子通向餐厅门口的油渍。昨天亨利端着牛排进来时,把盘子斜放在那里。可是,即使她警告过他一次,她也警告过他一千次了!

My experiences in life are getting bigger and better. The more stuff I do, the more stuff I talk about - having kids, traveling, going through relationship problems, dealing with things in my own family. All that stuff builds character.

我的人生经历变得越来越丰富和美好。我做的事情越多,我谈论的事情就越多——有孩子,旅行,经历关系问题,处理我自己家里的事情。所有这些都能塑造性格。

If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.

如果你想研究这些奇怪的生物,你最好有一个很好的理由。在一些鲜为人知的昆虫身上研究基因结构是不好的,因为从来没有人听说过。

There were times when he could not read the face he had studied so long, and when this lonely girl was a greater mystery to him than any women of the world.

有时候,他读不懂他研究了这么久的那张脸,对他来说,这个孤独的姑娘比世界上任何一个女人都要神秘。

Nevertheless, the mode, the justification, and all the games involved in this war were dishonest.

然而,这场战争的模式、理由和所有游戏都是不诚实的。

This team is really good at dealing with today and turning the page each day.

这个团队非常善于处理今天的事情,并且每天都能翻过新的一页。

Complexity is one of the great problems in environmental design.

复杂性是环境设计中的一个重要问题。

Without complexity, there's no intensity.

没有复杂性,就没有强度。