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It takes a long time to understand nothing.

They are deceptively simple. I admit that. But for me, all my life I try to simplify things. As a child in school, things were very hard for me to understand often, and I developed a knack, I think. I developed a process to simplify things so I would understand them.

The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

The difficult is what takes a little time; the impossible is what takes a little longer.

You learn that not all things fall into a certain kind of pattern that can be predictable and that can be understandable and that's going to be easy, you know.

I don't really get things very... intuitively. I mean, I don't immediately understand things. The only way I really get it is by writing it down.

If you really understand something, you can say it in the fewest words, instead of thrashing about.

When everything is easy one quickly gets stupid.

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.