Simplicity Quotes - Page 12

In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.

In requiring this candor and simplicity of mind in those who would investigate the truth of our religion, Christianity demands nothing more than is readily conceded to every branch of human science.

There is in art the notion of less is more, which is to say, you don't torture a painting that has already confessed.

Simplicity is the key to success.

I do not think that any civilization can be called complete until it has progressed from sophistication to unsophistication, and made a conscious return to simplicity of thinking and living.

If you can't describe your strategy in twenty minutes, simply and in plain language, you haven't got a plan. 'But,' people may say, 'I've got a complex strategy. It can't be reduced to a page.' That's nonsense. That's not a complex strategy. It's a complex thought about the strategy.

My life can be insanely complicated sometimes, and there's a certain simplicity that I crave.

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle to future expansion. ... The trick is to pick the features that don't fight each other.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

I appreciate simplicity, true beauty that lasts over time, and a little wit and eclecticism that make life more fun.

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

The Zen of doing anything is doing it with a particular concentration of mind, a calmness and simplicity of mind, that brings the experience of enlightenment and, through that experience, happiness.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Where there is simplicity, there are a hundred Angels, but where there is cleverness - there are none.

There is a majesty in simplicity.

From naive simplicity we arrive at more profound simplicity.

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands.

The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

Let this be thy whole endeavor, this thy prayer, this thy desire,-that thou mayest be stripped of all selfishness, and with entire simplicity follow Jesus only.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.