Quotes About Simplicity

Being on a boat that's moving through the water, it's so clear. Everything falls into place in terms of what's important and what's not.

Beautiful things don't ask for attention.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

It's crazy," she'd said, "but I'd be perfectly happy if I could sit looking at the same half dozen paintings for the rest of my life. I can't think of a better

Avoid dull facts; create memorable images; translate every issue into people's lives; use simple, everyday language; never use big words when small words will do. Simplify the concept that "we are trying to construct a more inclusive society" into "we are going to make a country in which no one is left out.

But she grasped points quickly and put them in simple terms. There is a type of mind, like Willi's, that can only accept ideas if they are put in the language he would use himself.

Beauty, my first girlfriend said to me, is that inner quality often associated with great amounts of leisure time.

Since I doubt, at the moment, whether I can stomach any hysterical verbiage, suppose we simply say what we mean.

Quel changement, Strozzi had said, and it was true. The change was there, and not only in the chamois and lawn, replacing the velvet, the rubies, the gold tissue. It was as if all about him had been stripped down and cleansed and reduced, without blurring, to its true structure. And his eyes, which were smiling, were clear.

I know what an Act to make things simpler means. It means that the people who drew it up don't understand it themselves and that every one of its clauses needs a law-suit to disentangle it.

Like all male creatures Wimsey was a simple soul at bottom.

We are so made that we soon grow weary of ornament for sake of ornament, and even of beauty that makes no appeal to the heart or the understanding.

If thine eye be single, the whole body is full of light

So many things in this life are a waste of time

All I need is room enough to lay a hat and a few friends.

There was a reason for the cost of those perfectly plain black dresses.

What do you want me to do, Peter? Chuck the ball back to me if it runs out of the circle. Not obviously. Just exercise your devastating talent for keeping to the point and speaking the truth. That sounds easy. It is--for you. That's what I love you for. --Gaudy Night

We are stuck with technology when what we really want is just stuff that works.

Just believe everything I tell you, and it will all be very, very simple. Ah, well, I'm not sure I believe that.

It [Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

The technology involved in making anything invisible is so infinitely complex that nine hundred and ninety-nine billion, nine hundred and ninety-nine million, nine hundred and ninety-nine thousand, nine hundred and ninety-nine times out of a trillion it is much simpler and more effective just to take the thing away and do without it.

It's quicker, easier, and involves less licking

An international power supply is the device which means it doesn't matter what country you're in, or even if you know what country you're in (more of a problem than you might suspect) - you just plug your Mac in and it figures it out for itself. We call this principle Plug and Play. Or at least, Microsoft calls it that because it hasn't got it yet. In the Mac world we've had it for so long we didn't even think of giving it a name.

Some of the most revolutionary new ideas come from spotting something old to leave out rather than thinking of something new to put in.