“I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea of an everlasting life -- a never-ending banquet, as a stupid visiting minister to our church once appallingly described it -- filled me with a greater terror than the concept of extinction.” IdeasUsedChurchReligiousGreaterStupidPeriodsConceptsFilledTerrorIntenseMinistersEverlastingExtinctionVisitingSixteenNever EndingBanquetsEverlasting Life Book:East Side Story: A Novel Source: East Side Story: A Novel
“The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.” KnowsTryingStillsIdeasTodaySchoolSimpleEffortPrinciplesSuccessfulStupidDesignCommunicationConceptsToolsDetailsSimplestKeep It Simple Author:Jeff Fisher
“Constraint theory asks: What is the price for doing this? Now one way around constraint theory is declaring your enemy crazy. Crazy and stupid are not concepts used in forecasting. When people say they're really stupid or they're crazy, that's laziness. That means I don't want to think through their position or about what they're really going to do.” PeopleThinkingWayWantMeanUsedAsksEnemyCrazyStupidPositionTheoryConceptsOne WayLazinessConstraintsDeclaringReally StupidForecasting Author:George Friedman
“The stuff that I'm saying, they're not really traditional, structured jokes. It's not like I'm talking about growing up in Chicago or anything remotely close to that. It's basically me juggling words and concepts and phrases and being stupid.” StuffTalkingGrowing UpGrowingStupidJokesConceptsTraditionalPhrasesChicagoJugglingBeing Stupid Author:Reggie Watts
“She doesn't understand the concept of Roman numerals. She thought we just fought in world war eleven.” WorldWarFunnyStupidConceptsWar Of The WorldsElevenHillariousNumeralsRoman Numerals Author:Joan Rivers
“The whole concept of 'grounding' children is utterly stupid - they just go off and rebel and don't like you. When my kids eventually come along, I don't want them to not like me.” WantChildrenWholeKidsStupidLike YouConceptsLike MeRebelGrounding Author:Kate Winslet