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Quotes About Simplicity

Unix is simple. It just takes a genius to understand its simplicity.
~ Dennis Ritchie
If it takes a lot of words to say what you have in mind, give it more thought.
~ Dennis Roth
Adults are always so busy with the dull and dusty affairs of life which have nothing to do with grass, trees, and running streams.
~ Denys Watkins-Pitchford
Convoluted and perplexing as it may seem, I have invariably found the simple people who never went to school, to be smarter, wiser and more knowledgeable than even the college professors. Education is a matter of having or not having opportunities; while the knowledge, smartness and wisdom must begin from within.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Many inventors often wish it secretly that they had invented Blue Jeans, because of the beauty and grace coupled with the comfort and simplicity that Jeans have created in our world.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Most of the inventors, even today, secretly wish that they had invented Jeans, because of the beauty and grace coupled with simplicity and comfort that blue Jeans have created in our world. Yours truly is no exception either! What's more, I love wearing Jeans as casual wear, especially during the weekends. I also think that whenever a celebrity or a beauty or a genius wears jeans, it always makes the most impactful fashion statement, loud and clear!
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Muchos inventores a menudo desean en secreto que habían inventado los tejanos, debido a la belleza y la gracia junto con la comodidad y la simplicidad que los pantalones vaqueros se han creado en nuestro mundo.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Truth in her purest form is simplest to understand. Truth is also the most beautiful shining entity in this world, unless and until people begin to use her as their weapon of choice to intentionally hurt others. In my view, Life without Truth is no life at all.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Veritas in purissima est forma simplicissima est intelligere. Verum etiam est in hoc mundo aliquid pulcherrimo, utere ea ut nisi dum incipiunt intentione teli nocere aliis arbitrii. meo iudicio, verum non sine vita.
~ Deodatta V. Shenai-Khatkhate
Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two where the mystery lies.
~ Derek Landy
Every solution to every problem is simple. It's the distance between the two wherein the mystery lies.
~ Derek Landy
Subtraction's overrated. It's like adding, only backwards. You're not ever going to need it.
~ Derek Landy
General knowledges are those knowledges that idiots possess.
~ William Blake
Sell your cleverness and buy bewilderment. Cleverness is mere opinion. Bewilderment brings intuitive knowledge.
~ Rumi
Half of the confusion in the world comes from not knowing how little we need.
~ Richard E. Byrd
To know what to leave out and what to put in; just where and just how, ah, that is to have been educated in knowledge of simplicity.
~ Frank Lloyd Wright
One of the principal objects of theoretical research in my department of knowledge is to find the point of view from which the subject appears in its greatest simplicity.
~ J. Willard Gibbs
You can't mastermind everything. You'll go crazy. Just show up and play.
~ Eric Clapton
Imagination without knowledge leads no farther than the back yard of primitive art, the child's scrawl on the fence, and the crank's message in the market place. Art is never simple.
~ Vladimir Nabokov
The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
~ L. Ron Hubbard
The important things usually prove to be very simple. They are also open secrets in the sense that no one is hiding the knowledge from us except ourselves.
~ Robert Moss
Partial knowledge is more triumphant than complete knowledge; it takes things to be simpler than they are, and so makes its theory more popular and convincing.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
To know all, it is necessary to know very little; but to know that very little, one must first know pretty much.
~ G. I. Gurdjieff
There is a down-and-outness under true knowledge and a childlike happy arising from it.
~ Franz Kafka