Quotes About Simplicity

I don't like technology and all that. I'm a farm boy. I would rather live in that time when you had to provide for your family. I don't know. I'm a country kid, so I don't like modern technology.

Good code is its own best documentation.

Any fool can use a computer. Many do.

High technology has done us one great service: It has retaught us the delight of performing simple and primordial tasks - chopping wood, building a fire, drawing water from a spring

Computers are like bikinis. They save people a lot of guesswork.

The technologies which have had the most profound effects on human life are usually simple.

You can do great things with low-tech stuff.

I hate to mention age, but I come from an era when we weren't consumed by technology and television.

Only small minds are impressed by large numbers.

One of the missions of Google[x] is to use technology to get technology out of the way

Keep it simple: own as little as you can get away with, schedule everything, keep a notebook, don't let technology enslave you.

Progress is made by lazy men looking for easier ways to do things.

A lot of the key to Apple's succes is Designing technology in order to hide it.

For much of its existence, design was all about convenience. We wanted to hide technology so that users are not distracted into thinking about the tools they use.

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

As sophisticated as the technology gets, the less sophisticated you have to become as an actor.

Technology doesn't have to be difficult to use or complicated. I feel technology is something that's there to make your life easier not more difficult.

We wanted technology to go away and for us to experience what it gives us, in a direct link, without any interface

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

This was before voice mail, recorded phone messages you can't escape. Life was easier then. You just didn't pick up the phone.

Find the minimum amount of technology that will maximize your options.

My goal for technology has always been to reach a point where the technological mediation becomes invisible.

I'm not a man deeply interested in technology. It eludes me. I confess I don't even have a computer, I don't have a cell phone.

In the old days, we painstakingly copied our emails onto paper, put a stamp on them and mailed them to arrive 4 to 5 days later. We also churned our own butter and used our phones for talking.