Quotes About Simplicity

Heuristics are simplified rules of thumb that make things simple and easy to implement. But their main advantage is that the user knows that they are not perfect, just expedient, and is therefore less fooled by their powers. They become dangerous when we forget that.

I have no large desire to sacrifice much of my personal habits, intellectual pleasures, and personal standards in order to become a billionaire like Warren Buffett, and I certainly do not see point of becoming one if I were to adopt Spartan (even miserly) habits and live in my starter house.

Linear relationships are truly the exception; we only focus on them in classrooms and textbooks because they are easier to understand. Yesterday

people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

What makes life simple is that the robust and antifragile don't have to have as accurate a comprehension of the world as the fragile—and

you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

Makridakis and Hibon reached the sad conclusion that statistically sophisticated or complex methods do not necessarily provide more accurate forecasts than simpler ones.

The difference between successful people and really successful people is that really successful people say no to almost everything," he said.

One may have a million ways to explain things, but the true explanation is unique, whether or not it is within our reach.

A complex system, contrary to what people believe, does not require complicated systems and regulations and intricate policies.

So, a heuristic: if someone has a long bio, I skip him

What is easy to conceive is clear to express / Words to say it would come effortlessly.

that really successful people say no to almost everything

Yet simplicity has been difficult to implement in modern life because it is against the spirit of a certain brand of people who seek sophistication so they can justify their profession.

complication without depth

People with too much smoke and complicated tricks and methods in their brains start missing elementary, very elementary things. Persons in the real world can't afford to miss these things; otherwise they crash the plane. Unlike

from cramming my day with appointments

What emerges from the minority rule is more likely to be black-and-white, binary rules.

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by addition

via negativa (acting by removing) is more powerful and less error-prone than via positiva (acting by additionfn1).

Proclus was known to repeat the metaphor that statues are carved by subtraction.. Michelangelo was asked how he carved the statue of David, his answer as: It's simple. I just remove everything that is not David.

we do not have the mental power to absorb all information and tend to be confused by details)

Less is more: Truth is lost with too much altercation

Things designed by people without skin in the game tend to grow in complication (before their final collapse).