Quotes About Simplicity

A table, a chair, a bowl of fruit and a violin; what else does a man need to be happy.

Any fool can write code that a computer can understand. Good programmers write code that humans can understand.

It's easier to put on slippers than to carpet the whole world.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

Good communication does not mean that you have to speak in perfectly formed sentences and paragraphs. It isn't about slickness. Simple and clear go a long way.

When we recall the past, we usually find that it is the simplest things - not the great occasions - that in retrospect give off the greatest glow of happiness.

I don't believe in email. I'm an old-fashioned girl. I prefer calling and hanging up.

The more you say, the less people remember.

Out of intense complexities, intense simplicities emerge

The less I needed, the better I felt.

When someone says, "I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done," give him a lollipop.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

Pet names are a persistant remnant of childhood, a reminder that life is not always so serious, so formal, so complicated. They are a reminder, too, that one is not all things to all people.

If you don't think too good, don't think too much.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

Face the simple fact before it comes involved. Solve the small problem before it becomes big.

I'm going to paraphrase Thoreau here... rather than love, than money, than faith, than fame, than fairness... give me truth.

I like things simple.

Zen is not some kind of excitement, but concentration on our usual everyday routine.

Distinguish between real needs and artificial wants and control the latter.

Better understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.

With coarse rice to eat, with water to drink, and my bent arm for a pillow - I have still joy in the midst of all these things.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

Take a nap Making the mountain water Pound the rice.