Keeping Things Simple

It is reported that Al-Jahiz wrote a massive encyclopedia, explaining which animals lay eggs and which give birth…….

He was bragging about the size of his compilation in front of a Bedouin….

The Bedouin said to him:
كل أذون ولود،وكل صموخ بيوض
‘𝗬𝗼𝘂 𝗰𝗼𝘂𝗹𝗱 𝗵𝗮𝘃𝗲 𝘀𝗶𝗺𝗽𝗹𝘆 𝘀𝗮𝗶𝗱: 𝗘𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗮𝗿𝘀 𝗴𝗶𝘃𝗲𝘀 𝗯𝗶𝗿𝘁𝗵, 𝗮𝗻𝗱 𝗲𝘃𝗲𝗿𝘆 𝗮𝗻𝗶𝗺𝗮𝗹 𝘁𝗵𝗮𝘁 𝗷𝘂𝘀𝘁 𝗵𝗮𝘀 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝗮𝗿-𝗼𝗽𝗲𝗻𝗶𝗻𝗴, 𝘄𝗶𝘁𝗵𝗼𝘂𝘁 𝗮𝗻 𝗲𝘅𝘁𝗲𝗿𝗻𝗮𝗹 𝗲𝗮𝗿, 𝗹𝗮𝘆𝘀 𝗲𝗴𝗴𝘀.’

He summarised the entire animal kingdom in one sentence!!

Sometimes, we over-complicate things for no reason:

There’s a funny story from the time of the Soviet-Union & USA – when they were competing for reaching the space. As there is no gravity in space, the Americans were investing time and money to invent a gravity-proof pen!!

A Russian engineer said: ‘why not just take a pencil?’