Simplicity Quotes - Page 31

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.

Embrace simplicity…be content with what you have and are, and not one can despoil you.

In my simplicity, I remember wondering why every gentleman did not become an ornithologist.

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

Fourier's theorem has all the simplicity and yet more power than other familiar explanations in science. Stated simply, any complex pattern, whether in time or space, can be described as a series of overlapping sine waves of multiple frequencies and various amplitudes.

Stiff-necked fools, you think you are cool to deny me for simplicity.

Strive for simplicity. You never have to fix what you leave out.

Great commanders write their actions with simplicity; because they receive more glory from facts than from words.

The law of simplicity and naïveté applies to all fine art, for it is compatible with what is most sublime.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

The criterion of simplicity requires that the minimum number of assumptions be postulated.

However we select from nature a complex [of phenomena] using the criterion of simplicity, in no case will its theoretical treatment turn out to be forever appropriate (sufficient).... I do not doubt that the day will come when [general relativity], too, will have to yield to another one, for reasons which at present we do not yet surmise. I believe that this process of deepening theory has no limits.

In truth, I was so good at being a man, with such plenitude and simplicity, that I thought I was something of a superman.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.

It is not merely the truth of science that makes it beautiful, but its simplicity.

Simplicity. Simplicity. Simplicity. The three keys to a spiritual life.

If simplicity were easy, we would see more of it.

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.

Oh, to live even for a day in the full light of freedom, to breathe the free air of simplicity! Isn't that the highest purity?

Those who sage as they age view aging not as a hardship but, rather, as a precious gift filled with promise and replete with possibilities. We may age graciously into simplicity and love, allowing the power from our sense of well-being to permeate the atmosphere around us, or we may vault into older age revved up and in high gear.

Our styles [with G-Dragon] are too different. I like simplicity so it's.....too different.

I want to show people my appeal through my simplicity rather than being 'I'm good looking; I know how to dress' that kind of way.