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Quotes About Simplicity

Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
~ Thomas Sowell
A calculating engine is one of the most intricate forms of mechanism, a telegraph key one of the simplest. But compare their value.
~ George Iles
University politics make me long for the simplicity of the Middle East.
~ Henry A. Kissinger
It is my experience that the short path to the simple and precise English needed by a man of science lies thorough the tongues of Homer and Vergil.
~ Henry Crew
We tend to think of science as finding equations, like E=MC2, that are simple and elegant. But maybe some theories are complicated, and we can only find the simple ones.
~ Hod Lipson
People always overestimate how complex business is. This isn't rocket science. We've chosen one of the world's simplest professions.
~ Jack Welch
Newton's laws of physics can rarely be applied to the real world. There is more to life than cause and effect. Things just aren't that simple
~ Amy Zhang
?Consciousness is simple, if you are bold enough to accept it as simple.
~ Abhijit Naskar, What is Mind?
Niko was a man of few words and flying, sugary snacks. I like that in a human. ~Catcher
~ Rob Thurman, Roadkill
The universe seems to be a lot like a car or a computer, in that it's designed to be user-friendly, which doesn't necessarily require the user to have a clue what's going on under the hood.
~ Michelle Templet
Life does not come with instructions on how to live, but it does come with trees, sunsets, smiles and laughter, so enjoy your day.
~ Debbie Shapiro
Everyone should smile. Life really isn't that serious. We make it hard. The sun rises. The sun sets. We just tend to complicate the process.
~ Arian Foster
Sometimes it is the smallest thing that saves us: the weather growing cold, a child's smile, and a cup of excellent coffee.
~ Jonathan Carroll
The easiest beneficence is a smile. The simplest release is to have a vegetarian meal.
~ Gautama Buddha
Smile. Have you ever noticed how easily puppies make human friends? Yet all they do is wag their tails and fall over.
~ Walter Inglis Anderson
A smile costs less than electricity, but gives much light .
~ Abbe Pierre
Just Enough Soil for legs Axe for hands Flower for eyes Bird for ears Mushrooms for nose Smile for mouth Songs for lungs Sweat for skin Wind for mind.
~ Nanao Sakaki
The little things are most worthwhile- a quiet word, a look, a smile.
~ Margaret Lindsay
Other people are joyous, like on the feast of the ox, like on the way up to the terrace in the spring. I alone am inert, giving no sign, like a newborn baby who has not learned to smile.
~ Laozi
Anywhere, anytime, I'd sacrifice the finest nuance for a laugh, the most elegant trope for a smile.
~ Edward Abbey
It was sweet and lovely, that smile, perhaps the more so because it wasn't complicated by much in the way of thought.
~ Stephen King, The Green Mile
No ideals. No illusions. Just reality - but more perfect than you've ever imagined. That's what being mindful and living in the present means.
~ Lidiya K., This Moment
I went to the woods because I wished to live deliberately.
~ Henry David Thoreau
Think what a better world it would be if we all, the whole world, had cookies and milk about three o'clock every afternoon and then lay down on our blankets for a nap.
~ Barbara Jordan