Quotes about simplicity
simplicity aim complexity
The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity. William James
simplicity return needs
We need to return to the simplicity that God is love. Rob Bell
simplicity ransom stuff
You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff. Wayne Dyer
simplicity style orderliness
The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity. William Strunk, Jr.
simplicity focus unhappy
If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become. Joseph B. Wirthlin
simplicity trying alternatives
For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth. Nelson Goodman
simplicity bugs avoiding
Avoiding complexity reduces bugs. Linus Torvalds
simplicity answers needs
I don't need a lot of money. Simplicity is the answer for me. Linda McCartney
simplicity genius
There is no genius where there is not simplicity. Leo Tolstoy
simplicity depth signs-and-symbols
Simplicity is the outward sign and symbol of depth of thought. Lin Yutang
simplicity domain wells
Simplicity and beauty are the signs not of truth but of a well-constructed approximate model of a limited domain of phenomena. Lee Smolin
simplicity too-much littles
Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much. Joshua Reynolds
simplicity musical important
The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity. Paul Desmond
simplicity unreliability complexity
A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable. Paul Dickson
simplicity innocence knows
Oh that simplicity and innocence its own unvalued work so seldom knows! Percy Bysshe Shelley
simplicity fundamentals quests
The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental. Jonathan Ive
simplicity hard
Simplicity is really hard.
simplicity absence clutter
Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,
simplicity gains
To gain freedom is to gain simplicity. Joan Miro
simplicity
God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own. Francois Fenelon
simplicity educated has-beens
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity. Frank Lloyd Wright
simplicity design use
Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.
simplicity simplify
Simplify always - do not complicate.
simplicity becoming purpose
The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler. Edward Teller
simplicity subtle distinction
Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective. Edward Tufte
simplicity essentials form
With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials. Henri Matisse
simplicity elegance approach
True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity. Henry Ward Beecher
simplicity world found
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
simplicity world modern
The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton
simplicity leaving insane
As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out.
simplicity needs complexity
Simplicity and complexity need each other. John Maeda
simplicity complexity optimal
The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity David Allen
simplicity poverty
In Zen, poverty is voluntary, and considered not really as poverty so much as simplicity, freedom, unclutteredness. Alan Watts