Simplicity Quotes - Page 11

Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

Measures are an innovation that changed a world of innocent and noble simplicity into one forever filled with dishonesty.

True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

Sincerity carries the soul in all simplicity to open its heart to God.

One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.

Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls.

Sometimes one has to say difficult things, but one ought to say them as simply as one knows how.

The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

I work within the limits of what I have and know, simplicity and low impact, natural materials and processes, leaving a delicate footprint.

Simplicity of approach is always best.

The height of cultivation always runs to simplicity.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

If you have to do with one who is unquestionably a slanderer, do not excuse him by calling him frank and free-spoken; do not call one who is notoriously vain, liberal and elegant; do not call dangerous levities mere simplicity; do not screen disobedience under the name of zeal; or arrogance, of frankness; or evil intimacy, of friendship. No, my friends, we must never, in our wish to shun slander, foster or flatter vice in others: but we must call evil evil, and sin sin, and so doing we shall serve God's glory.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

A well-designed and humane interface does not have to be split into beginner and expert subsystems.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Only the ephemeral is of lasting value.

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

Even before string theory, especially as physics developed in the 20th century, it turned out that the equations that really work in describing nature with the most generality and the greatest simplicity are very elegant and subtle.

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

By sowing frugality we reap liberty, a golden harvest.