Quotes About Simplicity

What we lack in subtlety, we make up for with a lack of subtlety.

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible

Good design is actually a lot harder to notice than poor design, in part because good designs fit our needs so well that the design is invisible, serving us without drawing attention to itself. Bad design, on the other hand, screams out its inadequacies, making itself very noticeable.

Any time you see signs or labels added to a device, it is an indication of bad design: a simple lock should not require instructions.

Two of the most important characteristics of good design are discoverability and understanding.

What makes something simple or complex? It's not the number of dials or controls or how many features it has: It is whether the person using the device has a good conceptual model of how it operates.

The design of everyday things is in great danger of becoming the design of superfluous, overloaded, unnecessary things.

Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

It is well to be simple once in a while.

When I lament and darken over my diminishments, I accomplish nothing. It's better to sit at the window all day, pleased to watch birds, barns, and flowers.

We don't need to increase our goods nearly as much as we need to scale down our wants. Not wanting something is as good as possessing it.

The easiest way to combat greed is by recognizing the value of contentment and simplicity.

For me, art can reflect the celebration of the simple and good things in life. This is most important to me!

The important thing in life is not what you get, but what you throw out.

It's strange how the simple things in life go on while we become more difficult.

I am just a person who is human, down to earth enjoying life.. whatever god blesses you with. Enjoying life for me is just normal.

Best things in life aren't things.

Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.

This is all you need in life: a computer, a camera, and a cat.

When you learn not to want things so badly, life comes to you.

The meaning of life is just to be alive. It is so plain and so obvious and so simple.

Experiencing the present purely is being empty and hollow; you catch grace as a man fills his cup under a waterfall.

People have a tendency to see country life through rose-colored glasses.