Quotes About Simplicity

He did not even bother to have a desk, let alone an office.

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write

Innovation is saying no to 1,000 things.

The resulting measure of future uncertainty satisfies our ingrained desire to simplify even if that means squeezing into one single number matters that are too rich to be described that way.

Technology is at its best when it is invisible.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it. Heuristics

Less is more and usually more effective.

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.

Excess wealth, if you don't need it, is a heavy burden.

I am simplifying numbers here for clarity.

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. Less is more and usually more effective.

But simplicity is not so simple to attain. Steve Jobs figured out that "you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple." The Arabs have an expression for trenchant prose: no skill to understand it, mastery to write it.

true wealth consists in worriless sleeping, clear conscience, reciprocal gratitude, absence of envy, good appetite, muscle strength, physical energy, frequent laughs, no meals alone, no gym class, some physical labor (or hobby), good bowel movements, no meeting rooms, and periodic surprises, then it is largely subtractive (elimination of iatrogenics).

We said that mere judgment would probably suffice in a primitive society. It is easy for a society to live without mathematics—

They were financially free, and secure, not because of their means but because of their lack of wants.

I do not dispute that arguments should be simplified to their maximum potential; but people often confuse complex ideas that cannot be simplified into a media-friendly statement as symptomatic of a confused mind.

modernity likes the abstract over the particular;

The idea is simple, yet potent and universal.

It is a country where they know how to build houses. A man's wish to be snug in his own little house, which is just for him and his family, and to have a garden which he cultivates himself, is considered quite reasonable, and so the cities are made up of just such little houses.

Existen personas para las que cualquier pequeño viaje o perspectiva de viaje supone aprensión y cansancio; una empresa agotadora. Para otras es un acto simple como sonarse la nariz.

So she was unprepared for the homely little house beside the pond, unprepared for the gentle eddies of dust, the silver cobwebs, the mouse who lived—and welcome to him!—in a table drawer.

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

It is the surest test of genuine love, that it brings back our early simplicity to the worldliest of us.