When plugged in, the least elaborate computer can be relied on to work to the fullest extent of its capacity. The greatest mind cannot be relied on for the simplest thing; its variability is its superiority.
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"The Masterpiece," in A Stroll with William James (1983)Jacques Barzun
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"I have always found them very reasonable --they don't change their minds when you aren't looking at them. Each one can always be relied upon to say the same thing."
Peter Greenaway
The first obligation of Simplicity is that of using the simplest means to secure the fullest effect. But although the mind instinctlvely rejects all needless complexity, we shall greatly err if we fail to recognise the fact, that what the mind recoils from is not the complexity, but the needlessness.
George Henry Lewes
Everything was plugged in and should’ve been working, but it gave me a communication error. I got like a cave man and got so mad at it. I was completely fed up. I’m not an engineer, I’m not a computer whiz. I don’t know anything about electronics. All I know is that I want this thing to make noise, I want to write music, and it’s not working.
Patrick Stump
He could always be relied on to find the right word at the right moment... and he was loved by the audience
Brian Hanrahan
Human beings can always be relied upon to assert, with vigor, their God-given right to be stupid.
Dean R. Koontz
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