Quotes About Simplicity

Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.

I like to juggle with one ball at a time. Then I put the ball down and do nothing for extended periods of time.

Remember when you were considered an environmentalist when you didn't throw junk out the car window? I sure do miss that simpler, happier time.

It's amazing how many people even today use a computer to do something you can do with a pencil and paper in less time.

You can find something truly important in an ordinary minute.

Speak in extremes, it'll save you time.

Cut in dressmaking is like grammar in language. A good design should be like a well made sentence and it should only express one idea at a time.

I think we're in a quiet time right now. luxury can be in the fit.

My perfect day is sitting in a room with some blank paper. That's heaven. That's gold, and anything else is just a waste of time.

From time immemorial, man has desired to comprehend the complexity of nature in terms of as few elementary concepts as possible.

I am a hard-core believer that the clean desktop is the way to go... At the same time, we told OEMs that if they were going to put a bunch of icons on the desktop, then so were we.

What I aim at is an image with a minimum of information and markers, that has no reference to a given time or place.

Turtle has just one plan at a time, and every cell buys into it.

Live uncluttered lives so you could have time for what is most important.

If it's not bourbon or sweatpants, it's going in the garbage.... No, don't get creative. Now is not a creative time. Now is a bourbon and sweatpants time.

For me, the food I like to make is the food I can enjoy all the time anytime. Its not too calculated or technical.

Sometimes you have to take a break from being a crazy kid. You can't be doing that all the time. Sometimes you just have to pay respect to your own simple-ness.

Everything is simpler than you think and at the same time more complex than you imagine

I want to figure out how I can make the most important statement with the least amount of information, so I don't run out of ideas by the time I get to my second or third chorus.

The tradition of always looking for the answer in the most fundamental way available - that is a great tradition, and it saves a lot of time in this world.

People today are too concerned about saving time and having convenience.

I was lucky to be born during the time of minimalism. I think I can be colder because of this. In form I speak with minimalism but my feeling is sentimental - I am a sentimental minimalist.

Take time to listen to what is said without words, to obey the law too subtle to be written, to worship the unnameable and to embrace the unformed.

I'm seeing the world partially through the eyes of a kid. Not all the time. There's no black and white to it. But sometimes I'm seeing it like I'm 4.