In his own words
Munger on Simplicity
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“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”
One of his most-quoted maxims; widely cited from his talks, exact occasion not pinned to a single recording.
“We have a passion for keeping things simple.”
“To the man with only a hammer, every problem looks pretty much like a nail.”
Munger's framing of why a single-discipline mind misjudges; he used it to argue for a latticework of mental models.