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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The interesting thing about fiction from a writer's standpoint is that the characters come to life within you. And yet who are they and where are they? They seem to have as much or more vitality and complexity as the people around you.

从作家的角度来看,小说的有趣之处在于,人物在你体内栩栩如生。然而他们是谁,在哪里?他们似乎和你周围的人一样,拥有或更多的活力和复杂性。

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。

One of the important things about temptation is, if I'm going to deal with it I'm going to have to recognize, this is an area of weakness in my life. I have been tempted here before and before and before.

关于诱惑,很重要的一点是,如果我要处理它,我必须认识到,这是我生活中的弱点。在此之前,在此之前,在此之前。

I'm dealing with fools and trolls and soft targets. It's just strafing runs in my underwear before my first cup of coffee. I don't have time for these clowns.

我要对付的是傻瓜、巨魔和软目标。只是在我喝第一杯咖啡前穿着内衣乱跑。我没时间看这些小丑。

I wonder if things can happen too early or too late or if everything happens at exactly the right time. If so, how sad and beautiful.

我想知道事情是否会发生得太早或太晚,或者一切都发生在正确的时间。如果是这样,多么的悲伤和美丽。

The time has come to underscore the fact that our and others' rights are contingent on our willingness to assert and defend them.

现在已经到了强调一个事实的时候,即我们和其他人的权利取决于我们是否愿意维护和捍卫这些权利。

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

自然规律的简单性来自于我们用来表达它们的语言的复杂性。

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。