David Fleming (1940–2010) British activist
All Party Parliamentary report into TEQs, p. 22 http://www.teqs.net/report/APPGOPO_TEQs.pdf
“Colon thought Carrot was simple. Carrot often struck people as simple. And he was.
Where people went wrong was thinking that simple meant the same thing as stupid.”
— Terry Pratchett, book Men at Arms
Source: Men at Arms
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“Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things.”
E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Context: Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist, simple things.
"Good" and "bad" are simple things. You bomb me = "bad." I bomb you = "good." Simple people(who, incidentally, run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very, very ignorant and really don't know anything.
Anton Chekhov (1860–1904) Russian dramatist, author and physician
Letter to his wife, Olga Knipper Chekhov (April 20, 1904)
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E.E. Cummings (1894–1962) American poet
Simple people(who,incidentally,run this socalled world)know this(they know everything)whereas complex people—people who feel something—are very,very ignorant and really don't know anything.
"Foreword to an Exhibit: I" (1944)
Nicholas Sparks book The Lucky One
Elizabeth Green, Chapter 15, Beth, p. 274
Variant: Sometimes the most ordinary things could be made extraordinary, simply by doin them with the right people.(Elizabeth Green)
Source: 2000s, The Lucky One (2008)
Salman Rushdie (1947) British Indian novelist and essayist
Salman Rushdie — Talking with David Frost (1993)
Ivar Jacobson (1939) Swedish computer scientist
Source: Object-Oriented Software Engineering: A Use Case Driven Approach (1992), p. 42; cited in: Sten Carlsson and Benneth Christiansson. (1999) " The Concept of Object and its Relation to Human Thinking: Some Misunderstandings Concerning the Connection between Object-Orientation and Human Thinking http://www.vits.org/publikationer/dokument/289.pdf." Informatica, Lith. Acad. Sci. 10.2. p. 147-160.
“People are so lazy, they want everything to be simple, but nothing is simple. Nothing.”
Malcolm Azania book The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad
Source: The Coyote Kings of the Space-Age Bachelor Pad (2004), Chapter 31 “Saturday Morning Mission” (p. 173)
“It's simple to be wise. Just think of something stupid to say and say the opposite.”
Sam Levenson (1911–1980) American journalist
