Quotes About Simplicity

I wonder if it wouldn't have been better if the Almighty had created us all as – well – as sort of plants. You know, firmly embedded in the soil. Then none of this rot about wars and boundaries would have come up in the first place.

is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it. In

And yet what precisely is this 'greatness'? Just where, or in what, does it lie? I am quite aware it would take a far wiser head than mine to answer such a question, but if I were forced to hazard a guess, I would say that it· is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart. What is pertinent is the calmness of that beauty, its sense of restraint. It is as though the land knows of its own beauty, of its own greatness, and feels no need to shout it

it is the very lack of obvious drama or spectacle that sets the beauty of our land apart.

Muichi Motsu: Hold nothing: If you meet Buddha, kill Buddha. If you meet the patriarchs, kill the patriarchs. Free of all, bound by nothing, you live your life simply as it is

Strive from the outset to express yourself with such clarity that a bright twelve-year-old would understand you. Any fool can make it complicated: it takes focus to make it simple.

And when things are simple, fewer mistakes are made. The most expensive part of a building is the mistakes.

cuanto más sencillas son las cosas, menos errores se cometen.

She had wanted cities, music, people, ideas. Now the desire for those things had left her, and she could not understand how she had ever wanted them. Peace was all a human being ought to ask for, it seemed to her.

Concision is the sister of talent.

Nosotros creemos estar experimentando la austeridad, pero no conocemos el significado de la palabra.

The easy problems get solved right away, so only the hard ones are left. That's why you should never believe a politician with simple answers.

Non parlare mai di quanto costi alcunché. Rimani calma e imperturbabile qualunque cosa accada. Ricorda che la campagna è preferibile alla città, l'ozio al lavoro, il vecchio al nuovo, e il rango è più importante del denaro. Devi sapere un po' di tutto, ma non essere davvero esperta in nulla.

making it more than what it is lessens it. Just to see it clear is plenty.

Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler. —ALBERT EINSTEIN

Don't stand up when you can sit down and don't sit down when you can lie down.

May the things of this world so lose their power over us that we do not in the slightest wish to be 'worldly'; nay, we even delight in not remaining 'in the world.'

All I want is a warm bed and a kind word and unlimited power.

I thought what I was good at doing was playing real simple guitar licks, since I'd cut my teeth on what Duane Eddy was doing; licks that were simple but had staying power.

Never underestimate the power of a simple tool.

Never present a power-user option in such a way that normal users must learn all about it in order to know they don't need to use it.

The software is where the magic is. If you're going to have all this power be simple enough, appealing enough and cool enough, it's going to be because the software is right.

Honing a thing down until you can still get through with economy, that's power.

Never overlook the power of simplicity.