Quotes About Simplicity

O, how much simpler things would be If eyes could paint or brush could see.

How we long to remove the clutter from our lives not realizing that the clutter is our lives.

In many areas of understanding, none so much as in our understanding of God, we bump up against a simplicity so profound that we must assign complexities to it to comprehend it at all. It is mindful of how we paste decals to a sliding glass door to keep from bumping our nose against it.

The best things in life are not only free, but the line is shorter.

Everything we possess that is not necessary for life or happiness becomes a burden, and scarcely a day passes that we do not add to it.

I am never five minutes into stripping the clutter from my life before I start running into the clutter that is my life.

Build your film on white, on silence and on stillness.

Bâtis ton film sur du blanc, sur le silence et l'immobilité.

If you get simple beauty and nought else, You get about the best thing God invents.

The daisy's for simplicity and unaffected air.

I am not poor, I am not rich; nihil est, nihil deest, I have little, I want nothing: all my treasure is in Minerva's tower...I live still a collegiate student...and lead a monastic life, ipse mihi theatrum [sufficient entertainment to myself], sequestered from those tumults and troubles of the world...aulae vanitatem, fori ambitionem, ridere mecum soleo [I laugh to myself at the vanities of the court, the intrigues of public life], I laugh at all.

The first rule of functions is that they should be small. The second rule of functions is that they should be smaller than that.

Abstraction is the elimination of the irrelevant and the amplification of the essential.

Clean code is simple and direct. Clean code reads like well-written prose. Clean code never obscures the designer's intent but rather is full of crisp abstractions and straightforward lines of control. - Grady Booch author of Object Oriented Analysis and Design with Applications

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system. It represents additional work, additional risk, and additional unnecessary complexity.

Building a project should be a single trivial operation.

FUNCTIONS SHOULD DO ONE THING. THEY SHOULD DO IT WELL. THEY SHOULD DO IT ONLY.

Duplication is the primary enemy of a well-designed system.

We want our code to be a quick skim, not an intense study.

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build, and test." —Ray Ozzie, CTO, Microsoft Corporation

Factories are a complexity that can often be avoided, especially in the early phases of an evolving design.

What makes a clean test? Three things. Readability, readability, and readability.

The goal of software architecture is to minimize the human resources required to build and maintain the required system.

This is the philosophy of YAGNI: "You aren't going to need it." There is wisdom in this message, since over-engineering is often much worse than under-engineering. On the other hand, when you discover that you truly do need an architectural boundary where none exists, the costs and risks can be very high to add such a boundary.