Quotes About Simplicity

Classes and routines are first and foremost intellectual tools for reducing complexity. If they're not making your job simpler, they're not doing their jobs.

One key to successful programming is avoiding arbitrary variations so that your brain can be free to focus on the variations that are really needed.

It's tempting to trivialize the power of metaphors. To each of the earlier examples, the natural response is to say, Well, of course the right metaphor is more useful. The other metaphor was wrong! Though that's a natural reaction, it's simplistic. The history of science isn't a series of switches from the wrong metaphor to the right one. It's a series of changes from worse metaphors to better ones, from less inclusive to more inclusive, from suggestive in one area to suggestive in another.

Be sure that the names you choose favor read-time convenience over write-time convenience.

you shouldn't be uneasy about any parts of the architecture. It shouldn't contain anything just to please the boss. It shouldn't contain anything that's hard for you to understand. You're the one who'll implement it; if it doesn't make sense to you, how can you implement it?

Knowing what to measure and how to measure it makes a complicated world much less so.

Have fun, think small, don't fear the obvious.

Conventional wisdom in Galbraith's view must be simple, convenient, comfortable and comforting - though not necessarily true.

Another cardinal rule of thinking like a child: don't be afraid of the obvious.

Knowing what to measure, and how to measure it, can make a complicated world less so.

As Albert Einstein liked to say, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

It is easy to get seduced by complexity; but there is virtue in simplicity too.

The problem with thoughtless signposting is that the reader has to put more work into understanding the signposts than she saves in seeing what they point to

I prefer the monotony of obscure sacrifice to all ecstasies. To pick up a pin for love can convert a soul.

Here's an idea: let's get over ourselves, buy a cherry pie, and go fall in love with life.

I let go of all I no longer love, need, or use. I adore space.

Love is a child that talks in broken language, yet then he speaks most plain.

I think if two people love each other, they should be able to get married. That's pretty much simple.

In everything, love simplicity.

The law of love could be best understood and learned through little children.

I'm a country boy, so I really appreciate the country. I love fishing, so I fish between takes on set. During lunch, I go for a fish.

Look, there's no metaphysics on earth but chocolates.

I've had plenty of good times and have settled peacefully into quite a boring existence that I love. I had enough fireworks and chaos. It is a blissful boring life, believe me.

I'm very classic and structural. I love clean lines and interesting, modern details. But I'm all about being streamlined - less is more.