Quotes About Simplicity

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.

A COMPLEX SYSTEM THAT WORKS IS INVARIABLY FOUND TO HAVE EVOLVED FROM A SIMPLE SYSTEM THAT WORKED. A

A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.

being with you was so easy and natural - there was no strain - I never had to guard my words...

how important speed in scene-changes and economy of superfluous decoration was in mounting Shakespeare's plays to their best advantage,

Speed and simplicity: these are the keywords to overcome the enemy.

As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things—sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in mountains.…

Canoes, too, are unobtrusive; they don't storm the natural world or ride over it, but drift in upon it as a part of its own silence. As you either care about what the land is or not, so do you like or dislike quiet things--sailboats, or rainy green mornings in foreign places, or a grazing herd, or the ruins of old monasteries in the mountains. . . . Chances for being quiet nowadays are limited.

the best things in science are both beautiful and simple, a fact that all too many teacher conceal from their students, by accident or design.

I have learned not to read reviews. Period. And I hate reviewers. All of them, or at least all but two or three. Life is much simpler ignoring reviews and the nasty people who write them. Critics should find meaningful work.

A dog has no use for fancy cars, big homes, or designer clothes. A water logged stick will do just fine. A dog doesn't care if you're rich or poor, clever or dull, smart or dumb. Give him your heart and he'll give you his. How many people can you say that about? How many people can make you feel rare and pure and special? How many people can make you feel extraordinary?

A dog doesn't care if you are rich or poor, educated of illiterate, clever or dull. Give him your heart and he will give you his. It was really quite simple, and yet we humans, so much wiser and more sophisticated, have always had trouble figuring out what really counts and what does not.

You know, people think mathematics is complicated. Mathematics is the simple bit. It's the stuff we can understand. It's cats that are complicated. I mean, what is it in those little molecules and stuff that make one cat behave differently than another, or that make a cat? And how do you define a cat? I have no idea.

The goal of science is to make the wonderful and complex understandable and simple—but not less wonderful. —Herb Simon, Sciences of the Artificial

Models need to be judged by what they eliminate as much as by what they include—like stone carving, the art is in removing what you do not need.

Now, she lived with her dogs in a small house by a creek in the country, and her life had become a simple thing.

Hitchhiking was such a pure form of existence. You'd wake up in the morning, and you'd have no idea what your day was going to be. And that's something I've never been able to shake. I loved that.

If you want to be free, learn to live simply. Use what you have and be content where you are. Quit trying to solve your problems by moving to another place, by changing mates or careers. Leave your car in the garage. If you have a gun, put it away. Sell that complex computer and go back to using pencil and paper. Rather than read every new book that comes along, reread the classics. Eat food grown locally. Wear simple, durable clothing. Keep a small home

O holy simplicity!

All truth is simple, but all that's simple is not truth"

The Constitution was written by 55 educated and highly intelligent men in Philadelphia in 1787, but it was written so that it could be understood by people of limited education and modest intelligence.

En pocas palabras, cada carta, un método de comunicación realmente antiguo en el mundo de los mensajes instantáneos, el correo electrónico, los SMS y los teléfonos móviles, estaba más pasada de moda que las señales de humo, las palomas mensajeras o el código Morse. Las cartas no contenían más que un mensaje sencillo y aparentemente elegido al azar.

O for the gentleness of old Romance, the simple planning of a minstrel's song!

To one who has been long in city pent,'Tis very sweet to look into the fairAnd open face of heaven.