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Quotes About Simplicity

Make your product easier to buy than your competition, or you will find your customers buying from them, not you.
~ Mark Cuban
If you cannot explain it simply, you do not understand it enough.
~ Albert Einstein
Success is not important to me, nor are power or money. If the script feels good, then I'm in. It's that simple.
~ Joseph Gordon-Levitt
The firm, the enduring, the simple, and the modest are near to virtue.
~ Confucius
Unless one is a genius, it is best to aim at being intelligible.
~ Anthony Hope
When a thought is too weak to be expressed simply, it should be rejected.
~ Luc de Clapiers
Knowing things halfway is a greater success than knowing things completely: it takes things to be simpler than they really are andso makes its opinions more easily understandable and persuasive.
~ Friedrich Nietzsche
We in science are spoiled by the success of mathematics. Mathematics is the study of problems so simple that they have good solutions
~ Whitfield Diffie
Like dear St. Francis of Assisi I am wedded to Poverty: but in my case the marriage is not a success.
~ Oscar Wilde
Small businesses want things streamlined, and one of the great successes we're having is less paperwork, faster turnaround times.
~ Karen Mills
Human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Dove troverete, ditemi, un amore simile al mio, un amore che né il tempo, né la lontananza, né la disperazione possono spegnere; un amore che si accontenta di un nastro smarrito, di uno sguardo perduto, di una parola sfuggita?
~ Alexandre Dumas
you know that human inventions march from the complex to the simple, and simplicity is always perfection.
~ Alexandre Dumas
he spoke with so much simplicity that it was evident he spoke the truth, or that he was mad.
~ Alexandre Dumas
Has not some sage said, 'Nothing too much'? and another, 'I carry all my effects with me'? I have
~ Alexandre Dumas
Bien sabéis que las invenciones humanas marchan de lo compuesto a lo simple, que es siempre la perfección.
~ Alexandre Dumas
prononçant le nom de Valentine et en vous serrant la main  ? – Oui, vous avez deviné juste, Morrel, dit le comte avec simplicité, et c'est ainsi que je l'entends. – Merci ; l'idée que demain je ne souffrirai plus est suave à mon pauvre coeur.
~ Alexandre Dumas
It is easier for the world to accept a simple lie than a complex truth.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
A proposition must be plain to be adopted by the understanding of a people. A false notion which is clear and precise will always meet with a greater number of adherents in the world than a true principle which is obscure or involved.
~ Alexis de Tocqueville
Avoid men who call you Baby, and women who have no friends, and dogs that scratch at their bellies and refuse to lie down at your feet. Wear dark glasses; bathe with lavender oil and cool fresh water. Seek shelter from the sun at noon.
~ Alice Hoffman
Let her wake as when she close her eyes. That was all Jenny asked for. That was all she begged for on this March night that was perfectly equal to the day, unique in all the season. Let her be the same sweet girl, unburdened by gifts or sorrow.
~ Alice Hoffman
Hard times make for simple minds
~ Alice Hoffman
You don't need wealth to appreciate something beautiful.
~ Alice Hoffman
To love someone so complicated you had to be committed to a single emotion—the way you loved him—no matter what. In that way, it was indeed simple.
~ Alice Hoffman