“Computers make it easier to do a lot of things, but most of the things they make it easier to do don't need to be done.”
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Andy Rooney25
writer, humorist, television personality 1919–2011Related quotes
“Destroying things is much easier than making them.”
Suzanne Collins The Hunger Games
Source: The Hunger Games
“So much easier is it to do many things than to do one thing for a long time continuously.”
Adeo facilius est multa facere quam diu.
Quintilian (35–96) ancient Roman rhetor
Book I, Chapter XII, 7; translation by H. E. Butler
De Institutione Oratoria (c. 95 AD)
“When you think about it, most of the good ideas came along to make sin a whole lot easier.”
Joe Hill (1879–1915) Swedish-American labor activist, songwriter, and member of the Industrial Workers of the World
Source: Horns
“Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.”
Robert A. Heinlein Time Enough for Love
Time Enough for Love (1973)
Variant: Progress doesn't come from early risers — progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.
“Will 2022 be easier? I do not know the answer to this. But I know that together we will make it.”
Alar Karis (1958) President of Estonia
Source: Alar Karis (2022) cited in: " President Alar Karis: I know we can do it together https://news.err.ee/1608453332/president-alar-karis-i-know-we-can-do-it-together" in ERR, 2 January 2022.