Quotes About Simplicity

Retirement: It's nice to get out of the rat race, but you have to learn to get along with less cheese.

No joke will work if you have to furnish a detailed explanation with it.

Its almost as easy as unraveling a sweater. Grab any loose thread and pull.

I fly economy. I do often fly first class, but I don't travel with a posse, or bodyguard, or an assistant.

What did you expect? Welcome, sonny? Make yourself at home? Marry my daughter? You've got to remember that these are just simple farmers. These are people of the land. The common clay of the new West. You know . . . morons

For hym was levere have at his beddes heedTwenty bookes, clad in blak or reed,Of Aristotle and his philosophie,Than robes riche, or fithele, or gay sautrie,But al be that he was a philosophre,Yet hadde he but litel gold in cofre.

For nakid as a worm was she.

A major intent is to show that underlying the extraordinary complexity, diversity, and apparent messiness of the world we live in lies a surprising unity and simplicity when viewed through the lens of scale.

Perhaps, then, the most surprising consequence of a visionary Theory of Everything is that it implies that on the grand scale the universe, including its origins and evolution, though extremely complicated, is not complex but in fact is surprisingly simple because it can be encoded in a limited number of equations, conceivably even just a single master equation.

It requires no especially great talent to write in such a way that another will be very hard put to it to understand what you have written

Man sollte nie so viel zu tun haben, daß man zum zum Nachdenken keine Zeit mehr hat.

Con demasiada frecuencia la "noble sencillez" en las obras de la naturaleza tiene su origen en la noble ignorancia de quien las contempla.

It is characteristic of objects of low complexity that it is easier to talk about the object than produce it and easier to predict its properties than to build it.

How easy it is to hate oneself! True grace is to forget. Yet if pride could die in us, the supreme grace would be to love oneself in all simplicity—as one would love any one of those who themselves have suffered and loved in Christ.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better. They fight for honor at the first challenge, make love with no moral restraint, and they do not for all their marvelous instincts appear to know about death. Being such wonderfully uncomplicated beings, they need us to do their worrying.

I think we are drawn to dogs because they are the uninhibited creatures we might be if we weren't certain we knew better.

When I ask how old your toddler is, I don't need to hear '27 months.' 'He's two' will do just fine. He's not a cheese. And I didn't really care in the first place.

You press the button, we do the rest.

The finest language is mostly made up of simple unimposing words.

Plainness has its peculiar temptations quite as much as beauty.

Animals are such agreeable friends?they ask no questions, they pass no criticisms.

Morality starts as a simple concept and becomes complicated.

Things would be so easy if it wasn't for feelings.

yep Eloquence 'R' Us. When in trouble, keep it monosyllabic-safer that way.