Sal Khan

The math you need for most of finance is ninth-grade algebra, and most people feel reasonably comfortable with that. But I think the financial world there has been - I don't know if it's by design, or this is how it's evolved - there are bad actors who have wanted to obfuscate because you can benefit from the lack of transparency.

American Educator

Melissa Gilbert

My mother, whom I love dearly, has continually revised my life story within the context of a complicated family history that includes more than the usual share of divorce, step-children, dysfunction, and obfuscation. I've spent most of my adult life attempting to deconstruct that history and separate fact from fiction.

American Actress

Anand Giridharadas

Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate and deflect and justify myself: to re-brand what was good for me as something appearing good for us both, when I threw around terms like 'the sharing economy' and 'disruption' and 'global resourcing.

American Author

Ricky Jay

To obfuscate the reconstruction of the effect - when a magician is fooled by another magician doing magic. In my career that's not been the major passion, but it's been the passion of a number of my mentors. The crowning achievement for them would be to create magic good enough to fool other magicians.

American Actor

Julian Baggini

The mark of a mature, psychologically healthy mind is indeed the ability to live with uncertainty and ambiguity, but only as much as there really is. Uncertainty is no virtue when the facts are clear, and ambiguity is mere obfuscation when more precise terms are applicable.

British Author

Johann Johannsson

Music should resonate with people on an emotional level. That's one of the criterions I use for an idea. Does it speak simply and directly without obfuscation and without being unnecessarily complex or obscure?

Icelander Composer

Howard Gardner

We are not going to get rid of the digital media - nor should we want to - and so our challenge is to use the media to determine the truth, rather than to let the media obfuscate matters.

American Psychologist

Don Tapscott

The blanket assertion that corporations are people obfuscates the complex issues at play in the changing business world. Corporation are institutions. People are people.

Canadian Businessman

Pavel Durov

WhatsApp deliberately obfuscates their apps' binaries to make sure no one is able to study them thoroughly.

Russian Businessman

Jeff Weiner

I've come to learn there is a virtuous cycle to transparency and a very vicious cycle of obfuscation.

American Businessman

Obfuscate often implies someone is purposely making things unclear.

Intentional Confusion

It's frequently used in technical or formal contexts to indicate intentional complexity.

Technical Usage

It often carries a negative connotation, suggesting dishonesty or evasion.

Negative Connotation

Although common in technical fields, it's also used in everyday situations to mean general confusion.

Beyond Technical

Using 'obfuscate' may risk confusion if listeners aren't familiar with the term.

Misunderstanding Risk

It may imply frustration or distrust towards the person creating confusion.

Emotional Impact

 the job of senior management and a highly effective return on their on their time it's about tilting the playing field so that it's tilted in your direction keeps out competition keeps the advantages and licenses you have in your hands and sometimes it means also obfuscating

How to build a greener,...

 about how what you are actually experiencing was flexibility and freedom. Language is one of the only things that we truly share, and I sometimes used this joint inheritance to obfuscate