Quotes About Simplicity

Agile management is about working smarter rather than harder. It's not about doing more work in less time: It's about generating more value from less work.

We spend so much effort trying to make things square or whatever, and nature just does what it does.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction. ALBERT EINSTEIN

Very young children don't have the intermediary of language—they don't have a sign in place of the thing. They "see and hear in the old way.

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius—and a lot of courage—to move in the opposite direction.

Matthew 18:3, (NIV), "Truly I tell you, unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the Kingdom of Heaven.

Kant fue criado como un "pietista", una versión del luteranismo que destacaba la simplicidad y evitaba la ornamentación externa. Consecuentemente no tenía retratos o pinturas en ninguna de las paredes de su casa, con una excepción: sobre su escritorio en su estudio colgó un retrato de Rousseau[39], y escribió: "He aprendido a honrar

retried beans and rice.

We're lovable in the ordinary.

G. K. Chesterton: "The most extraordinary thing in the world is an ordinary man and an ordinary woman and their ordinary children." And

Good booze, good blues and nothing to do tomorrow. This is actually all anyone needs to be happy.

Fill your bowl to the brim and it will spill. Keep sharpening your knife and it will blunt. Chase after money and security and your heart will never unclench. Care about people's approval and you will be their prisoner. Do your work, then step back. The only path to serenity.

An empty mind is easy to feed.

Cooking is great, but the meal that has been prepared for you with love is the best.

Is there a way to choose a few things and do them well rather than do a lot of things halfway or not at all? Can we accept the fact that we may be in a season when we need to say no with the understanding that the season will not last forever?

My goal is simple. It is the complete understanding of the Universe.

Parker always felt things in his bones because, he said, it saved space

a clutter of toys and materials actually makes for less play - it's all too much choice. If

But with comedy it's a simple premise. If it's funny, people laugh. If it's not, they don't.

The flat tax would be so simple, you could fill it out on a post card. A post card that would say, in effect, having a wonderful time; glad most of my money is here.

Composite Simpler Than the Sum of Its Parts The API of a composite object should not be more complicated than that of any of its components.

Rituals, ceremonies, prayers, and special outfits are inevitable, but they do not—they cannot—express the heart of what the Buddha taught. In fact, all too often, such things get in the way. They veil the simple wisdom of the Buddha's words, and distract us from it.

Here's a generalization but in my experience, it's true. Women love to sit and talk for no apparent reason but to talk, but we men, we're just not cut out to chitchat for the sake of chitchat—we don't have time for it. We men are very simple people: if we like what we see, we're coming over there. If we don't want anything from you, we're not coming over there. Period.

Men are very simple, logical people; if you tell us what you like and what you don't like, we'll do anything we can to make sure we live up to your expectations, particularly if we're interested in forging a relationship with you.