Quotes About Simplicity

Jeff: I don't need a limousine to know who I am. At least I know I don't know.

And then I'm gonna step right into the wilderness. Just live on berries and shit. Not bother anybody. Not hurt anything. Something I have to do, man.

You can never get enough of what you don't really need.

You can never have enough of that which you don't need.

Má»™t cuá»™c s?ng gi?n d? ngày nay là cuá»™c phiêu lÆ°u d? th??ng nh?t.

It was a very happy time in my life, and that was an important lesson too: to learn how little it took to be happy, to understand from a young age that the human heart is a small and delicate vase. You must handle it carefully, but in the right circumstances, it does not take much to fill it up.

When you feel the urge to design a complex binary file format, or a complex binary application protocol, it is generally wise to lie down until the feeling passes.

Make each program do one thing well. To do a new job, build afresh rather than complicate old programs by adding new features.

La lenteur, c'est ça le secret du bonheur.

J'aurais travailler lentement, en prenant bien mon temps, je ne voulais pas faire du chiffre, ou voir défiler les clients, non. La lenteur, c'est ça, le secret du bonheur.

looking for the next thing to do or the newest gadget to use is only a means of protecting oneself from being close to oneself or to another person.

The best thing to do with the best things in life is to give them up.

It is always the simple that produces the marvelous.

To love is simple but difficult

I no more believe in simplistic solutions than I do in simplistic identieties. The world is a complex machine that can't be dismantled with a srewdriver. But that shouldn't prevent us from observing, from trying to understand, from discussing, and sometimes suggesting a subject for reflection.

La riqueza no se mide por las cosas que se poseen sino por aquellas de las que sabemos prescindir.

My greed goes no further than having something to drink, clothing on my back and shelter for the night.

Anglo-Saxon tends not to lend itself to long and elaborate words that have strung together three or four affixes to create a rhetorical term for a very obscure thing. While

Frugality without creativity is deprivation.

Then the children went to bed, or at least went upstairs, and the men joined the women for a cigarette on the porch, absently picking ticks engorged like grapes off the sleeping dogs. And when the men kissed the women good night, and their weekend whiskers scratched the women's cheeks, the women did not think shave, they thought stay .

I would like to go for a ride with you, have you take me to stand before a river in the dark where hundreds of lightning bugs blink this code in sequence: right here, nowhere else! Right now, never again!

I think, for me, I need to be myself." Another pause. "And I've never been a kind of a hyperactive, runaround kind of person. I think one of the greatest gifts that we can give anybody is the gift of one more honest adult in that person's life—whether [the recipient] be a child or an adult. "And so, for me, being quiet and slow is being myself, and that is my gift.

Sometimes the small dreams were all a person needed to live.

Simple is good," he said. "I've lived through complicated. Complicated hurts. Simple sustains you. Complicated makes you hungry for simple.