Famous Quotes & Sayings

Alan Watts

In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness.

Alan Perlis

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

Bertolt Brecht

...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

Agnes Repplier

Like simplicity and candor, and other much-commented qualities, enthusiasm is charming until we meet it face to face, and cannot escape from its charm.

Charlie Chaplin

Simplicity of approach is always best.

Charles Lamb

Cultivate simplicity, Coleridge.

Charles Sanders Peirce

There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

Carl Jung

If only simplicity were not the most difficult of all things. It consists of watching objectively the development of any fragment of fantasy.

Deepak Chopra

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

David Hilbert

No one shall expel us from the paradise which Cantor has created for us. Expressing the importance of Cantor's set theory in the development of mathematics.

Carl Jung

In the history of the collective as in the history of the individual, everything depends on the development of consciousness.

Ben Bernanke

Developments in financial markets can have broad economic effects felt by many outside the markets.

Brian Behlendorf

In true open source development, theres lots of visibility all the way through the development process.

Jane Jacobs

poverty has no causes. Only prosperity has causes. Analogically, heat is a result of active processes; it has causes. But cold is not the result of any processes; it is only the absence of heat. Just so, the great cold of poverty and economic stagnation is merely the absence of economic development.

Alain Aspect

The development of quantum mechanics early in the twentieth century obliged physicists to change radically the concepts they used to describe the world.

Jan Eliasson

Without peace there is no development, and without development there is no peace

Ban Ki-moon

We must follow the wisdom of the Brundtland Report. We must pursue development that meets the needs of the present generation without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their needs.

Aung San Suu Kyi

The history of the world shows that peoples and societies do not have to pass through a fixed series of stages in the course of development.

Elizabeth Moon

I love biomedical science, I love astronomy, and you can't really do much with those in a fantasy setting.

Benjamin Percy

I grew up on genre - on Westerns, spy thrillers, sci-fi, fantasy novels, horror novels. Especially horror novels.

Florence Belcher

After each fashion show, we will also have a fantasy reception in order to showcase the talents of our vendors.

Brandon Sanderson

This is going to take a while. I'm a fantasy author. We have trouble with the concept of brevity.

Billy Long

There is a real fantasy with the American West. When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Billy Thornton

There is a real fantasy with the American West, ... When you really make it big in Hollywood or on Wall Street, you want to fulfill that fantasy.

Debra Messing

My biggest fantasy love affair was with Dustin Hoffman. It's so bizarre. Also Anthony Hopkins.

John Fogerty

We heard rumors over the years that Fantasy was on the market, but nothing materialized,

George Gurdjieff

Religion is doing; a man does not merely think his religion or feel it, he lives his religion as much as he is able, otherwise it is not religion but fantasy or philosophy.