When physicists can explain the universe as simply as understanding a computer, then I'll be ready for them!
Well, the simplicity was expounded upon over dozens of pages. It wasn't so simple that I didn't have to reread certain things or that I could regurgitate everything to another person. Let's just say I had a sense that I was absorbing most of the information, at least until he started getting into the details of string theory. Greene's explanations of concepts were colorful and presented in small enough pieces for me to comprehend. By the way, I am speaking of THE ELEGANT UNIVERSE and not the book emphasized in the interview link, though both are about the same topic.
Unfortunately, that may not be possible. Computers are specifically built in order to *be* understandable by their owners. The universe's properties, on the other hand, don't seem to have been formulated with a consideration for what might seem "easily understandable" for us.
In fact, J.B.S. Haldane's famous line may well be very true: "The universe is not only stranger than we imagine, it's stranger than we *can* imagine."
Or on a more flippant note, there's Mark Twain's, "Of course truth is stranger than fiction: Fiction, after all, has to make sense."
The point of course is that fiction is purposely constructed so as to make some sense to the reader -- but reality is under no such restriction whatsoever, and is often such that it makes little or no sense to human notions of how things "ought" to be or "ought" to behave.
The universe just is what it is, whether we can wrap our minds around it or not.