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What do you mean by effect? The notion of cause and effect is meaningless under determinism. Nothing can cause anything else, since event X causing Y implies that X explains why Y happened. But Y was determined to happen way before X even existed. So the only meaningful cause of all events is the complete state of the universe at some given point in time.

Good proofs have low complexity.
Dip a nut in water until it's easy to break.
A long chain of simple links could still be complex retarded garbage when viewed from afar. Theories need to be simple as well, not just proofs. It's not OK to hide the complexity of a proof in the unintuitive intricacies of your theories.
Formless mathematical ideas are stirred in the mind until they suddenly arise in your consciousness and then you pick one. Poincaré.
Personal observation: when you force yourself to think in words math comes more easily. Purely symbolic thought is not very conducive for mathematical thought. Also linguistic thought is more easily remembered. Most of my previous thoughts that I remember have been linguistic.