Mental Pictures

I've been reading Malcom Gladwell's latest book, Blink: The Art of Thinking Without Thinking. The basic concept of the book is that 1)we can make decisions with far less information than we think, 2)more information sometimes leads us to the wrong decisions, and 3)intuition is actually a process of "think slicing" information stored in our subconscious.

I said all that, to say this, I'm watching Brilliant Minds on Discovery Science, and the narrator just said something I found interesting. He said that Newton and Einstein looked at problems the same way, they had intense focus and used simple mental pictures to answer complex questions. I've always felt drawn to Occam's Razor. I'm convinced simplicity is no vice but a great personal value that we should try to develop.