Simplicity Quotes - Page 41

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment.

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Simplicity: The New Competitive Advantage in a World of More, Better, Faster.

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

Simplicity is power. The power to do less of what doesn't matter and more of what does.

The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

What were once felt to be defects-isolation, institutional simplicity, primitiveness of manners, multiplicity of religions, weaknesses in the authority of the state-could now be seen as virtues, not only by Americans themselves but by enlightened spokesmen of reform, renewal and hope wherever they may be-in London coffeehouses, in Parisian salons, in the courts of German princes.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.

Because I write very simply, but inside the simplicity, there's a lot of subtlety. That's what I'm proud of.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

A man's simplicity is the beauty of his humanity in life.

I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity.

Simplicity is oftenest an adroit pretence.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

It has taken me 20 years to eliminate the unnecessary elements from my work.

ARTLESSNESS, n. A certain engaging quality to which women attain by long study and severe practice upon the admiring male, who is pleased to fancy it resembles the candid simplicity of his young.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.