Quotes / Occam's Razor

Culp: Danner, Danner. When you hear the clomping of hooves, think horses, not zebras.
Danner: Is this a riddle? You know I'm good at riddles.
Culp: Usually, the simplest answer is the right one. And in this case, it's Aniq.
Danner: But if you hear the clomping of hooves in Tanzania, nine times out of ten, it's zebras.
Culp: Oh, my God. Your theories are so convoluted.
Danner: Or they could be breaking out of the zoo. Did you see Madagascar with Chris Rock? They had all them animals...

— The Afterparty

O-Chul: Wait. You are insisting that I am holding out on you, based solely on what you consider the most likely scenario?
Redcloak: Naturally. Logic dictates that the simplest solution is the most probable.
O-Chul: And you find the idea that I have some sort of secret knowledge implanted in my brain by the elders of the Sapphire Guard that has been so deeply suppressed that no magical effect can unearth it to be SIMPLER...than the idea that I just don't know anything?
[Redcloak opens his mouth to reply, but finds he has no response; Beat Panel]
Redcloak: I like the way I phrased it better.
O-Chul: No doubt.

— The Order of the Stick, "O-Chul's Razor"

"Most of the time, the obvious call is the right one."

— Adam Blampied, How Adam Would Book... Kurt Angle's Illegitimate Son In WWE