Failures of perspective in decision-making can be due to aspects of the social utility paradox, but more often result from simple mistakes caused by inadequate thought. – Herman Kahn
Go to any Shinto temple in Japan and you’ll see it: a simple stand from which hang hundreds of wooden postcard-size plaques with a colorful image on one side and, on the other, densely scribbled Japanese characters in black felt-tip pen, pleas to the gods for help or succor. – Hanya Yanagihara
Sometimes, the things we think are so simple but not so easy to grasp are the things that work the best. – Howard Graham Buffett
Government is force, pure and simple. There’s no way to sugar-coat that. And because government is force, it will attract the worst elements of society – people who want to use government to avoid having to earn their living and to avoid having to persuade others to accept their ideas voluntarily. – Harry Browne
By the time you get a job, you know how to behave in a meeting or how to write a simple memo. – Howard Rheingold
The way I paint is similar to rock in that you don’t stand around and say, ‘Gee, what are they talking about?’ Rock is simple, blunt, colorful. Same with my paintings. You don’t stand back and wonder what it is. That’s Jim Morrison, that’s a panda, that’s a scene on the West Coast. It’s not abstract. – Grace Slick
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. – Greg Graffin
It’s true that at the time I was fond of Kurt Vonnegut and Richard Brautigan, and it was from them that I learned about this kind of simple, swift-paced style, but the main reason for the style of my first novel is that I simply did not have the time to write sustained prose. – Haruki Murakami
If you dedicate yourself to something, you can achieve it. It’s simple, but it’s true, and your age is just an excuse. – Herschel Walker
The same practice was continued every evening through the whole course, and with the same success. Many individuals expressed their gratification at having discovered such simple means of relieving the tedium of a long discourse. – George Combe
Bob Dylan continues to release odd and unsettling records, and to do odd and unsettling things on stage. So the term ‘still’ seems meaningless to me. But the real answer is simple: I listen to Bob Dylan for pleasure more than I listen to anyone else for pleasure. – Greil Marcus
I became hooked on ‘In Treatment,’ which was so finely written and performed. Such a simple idea, and yet it delved into very complex territory with real grace and humanity. – Hattie Morahan
‘The Immigrant Story,’ which took me about twenty-five years to write, was a very simple story, but I couldn’t think of how to tell it. Then twenty years after I started it, I found this one page and realized it was going to be the story. That’s the only way you get it sometimes. – Grace Paley
The virtue of binary is that it’s the simplest possible way of representing numbers. Anything else is more complicated. You can catch errors with it, it’s unambiguous in its reading, there are lots of good things about binary. So it is very, very simple once you learn how to read it. – George M. Whitesides
Time and time again, truly basic studies of simple experimental organisms have proved directly relevant to human biology and human disease. An investment in such basic studies is an effective investment indeed. – H. Robert Horvitz
I have this absurd syndrome where I get these out-of-the-blue, pathetic panic attacks. It’ll be in a very easy, simple scene when everything is going swimmingly, and then suddenly, bang, I’m shvitzing and can’t remember my lines. – Hugh Grant
The classical theory of omniscient rationality is strikingly simple and beautiful. – Herbert A. Simon
My clothes are built to show off the woman who wears them. I like them to be simple… to move well, to move with the times and a little ahead of the times. – Hattie Carnegie
Does anyone actually think I’m going to call Tiger Woods and tell him what to do with his swing one day, and he’s going to go out and do it, simple as that? It doesn’t work like that. – Hank Haney
When I first began to learn to sing, it took me from three to four months to learn two simple hymns. – Heber J. Grant
The National Youth Theatre did one very simple but incredible thing for me: it made me realise I had choices. – Gina McKee
I don’t compare shows. It’s very simple. I don’t live in the past. If there’s any secret to my longevity, it’s living in the future. And a little bit in the present. – Harold Prince
The moment-of-conception fallacy implies that fertilization is a simple process with never a doubt as to whether it has or has not happened. – George C. Williams
I believe that even today we can only tell a simple story without really interfering with gameplay. But in the future, I think it will almost be a requirement of all storytellers when they create games, how they can tell a more complex story without conflicting with the gameplay. – Hideo Kojima
From some dilatory reading in the early 1960s, I knew enough about viruses and their association with tumors in animals to understand that they might provide a relatively simple entry into a problem as complex as cancer. – Harold E. Varmus
I’m a big fan of simplicity, especially with songs and I try not to make them complicated. I just make them simple and let people absorb that message themselves. That’s my theory. – Graham Russell
Terrorism, ladies and gentlemen, in my eyes I have a very, very, very simple explanation. Gangs of criminals, killers, used unfortunately by certain governments in the past for political purposes, who are on their own now as gangs. – Hamid Karzai
We took a plant that was being closed by a big company thinking there was no good use for it, and we came in with a different perspective. We bought some used equipment, as simple as we could. – Hamdi Ulukaya
There’s a simple arithmetical logic at work. Build more unaffordable and not always architecturally sympathetic apartments, watch the rents rise, the tarts leave, the small shops, production offices and design studios close down, and hey presto, we have another fashionable London suburb indistinguishable from the rest. – Howard Jacobson