Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 10, The Critic as Clown
“Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.”
Source: In Defence Of Politics (Second Edition) – 1981, Chapter 5, A Defence Of Politics Against Technology, p. 106.
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British political theorist and democratic socialist 1929–2008Related quotes
“Simple people, people who don't exist, prefer things which don't exist,simple things.”
"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.
Source: 1960s-1970s, The Sciences of the Artificial, 1969, p. 53.
“Complexity must be grown from simple systems that already work.”
Out of Control: The New Biology of Machines, Social Systems and the Economic World (1995)
“People were just too complex to reduce to simple personality traits.”
Source: The Final Empire