Kat (and Googlin' Janie) got it: Thomas Paine.

Slag, I do believe that's a misquote, or an incomplete one. Somewhere, there was a thread about religion and Einstein...

Sorry, Freda - I didn't know yours was still going. There is some sort of cultural norm that says that the more complex something is, the more intelligence must be behind it. I think of those who write convoluted, puffed up garbage, put computers to control the automatic you-name-it in cars, or perhaps play synthesizers. Some of these things are fun, but they're usually not too useful and often obscure the main point. This is probably what, in a lot of cases, these things are supposed to do. They're camouflage to hide some simple thing underneath, and make it look more important than all the other simple things.

I like to look for the kernal at the center of all the fluff. Sometimes, the fluff is nice, but mostly it comes off as a desperate attempt to tart up the insignificant.