Quote

As far as I'm concerned, if something is so complicated that you can't explain it in 10 seconds, then it's probably not worth knowing anyway.

Bill Watterson

Change background

T
T
T

Change font

TAGS & TOPICS

Bill Watterson
Age: 66
Born: 1958
Born: July 5
Author
Cartoonist
Comics Artist
Washington
District of Columbia
Anyway
Explain
Complicated
Concerned
Worth
Probably
Knowing
Something
Seconds

More quotes by Bill Watterson

Image
Isn't it sad how some people's grip on their lives is so precarious that they'll embrace any preposterous delusion rather than face an occasional bleak truth?
Bill Watterson
Image
Hey Susie Derkins, is that your face, or is a 'possum stuck in your collar?
Bill Watterson
Image
People always make the mistake of thinking art is created for them. But really, art is a private language for sophisticates to congratulate themselves on their superiority to the rest of the world. As my artist’s statement explains, my work is utterly incomprehensible and is therefore full of deep significance.
Bill Watterson
Image
Some people are pragmatists, taking things as they come and making the best of the choices available. Some people are idealists, standing for principle and refusing to compromise. And some people just act on any whim that enters their heads. I pragmatically turn my whims into principles.
Bill Watterson
Image
I suppose if we couldn't laugh at things that don't make sense, we couldn't react to a lot of life.
Bill Watterson
Image
I'm not dumb. I just have a command of thoroughly useless information.
Bill Watterson
Image
In a culture that relentlessly promotes avarice and excess as the good life, a person happy doing his own work is usually considered an eccentric, if not a subversive.
Bill Watterson
Image
So, what's it like in the real world? Well, the food is better, but beyond that, I don't recommend it.
Bill Watterson
Image
I'm willing to take the blame if the strip goes down the drain, and I want the credit if it succeeds. So long as it has my name on it, I want it to be mine.
Bill Watterson
Image
CALVIN: When I grow up I want to be an inventor. First I will invent a time machine. Then I'll come back to yesterday and take myself to tomorrow and skip this dumb assignment.
Bill Watterson
Image
I don't enjoy lettering very much, but that's the way I write and that belongs in the strip because the strip is a reflection of me.
Bill Watterson
Image
HOBBES: All this modern technology just makes people try to do everything at once.
Bill Watterson
Image
The problem with the future is that it keeps turning into the present.
Bill Watterson
Image
Obviously the great thing about this job is the complete freedom of the schedule. So long as I meet the deadline, they don't care when I work or how I work.
Bill Watterson
Image
Having an enviable career is one thing. Being a happy person is another
Bill Watterson
Image
The real fun of living wisely is that you get to be smug about it.
Bill Watterson
Image
Things are never quite as scary when you've got a best friend.
Bill Watterson
Image
Calvin:It says here that 'religion is the opiate of the masses.'...what do you suppose that means? Television: ...it means that Karl Marx hadn't seen anything yet
Bill Watterson
Image
When the cartoonist is trying to talk honestly and seriously about life, then I believe he has a responsibility to think beyond satisfying the market's every whim and desire.
Bill Watterson
Image
Too often cartoonists just look at other cartoonists and, after a lot of inbreeding, everyone has the same funny look. The challenge of drawing is that there is no one right way to visually describe something. It's a good thing to confront your limitations and preconceptions every so often.
Bill Watterson