Quotes About Simplicity

The next time an idea for a small program springs to mind, awaken your knowledge of the Java class library from hibernation rather than reaching for that JHipster scaffold. Hipsterism is passé; living a simple life is where it's at now. I bet Mort loved the simple life.

É preciso tão pouco tempo para forjar uma vida.

One day the Inuit journeyed out to gather grass along the coast. When they got to where they were going and found the grass stunted by a late spring, they sat down and in Nansen's words "waited for the grass to grow." The lesson is simple. Be patient, stay put.

It is so easy to get entangled in all the "purpose" questions about life.… You want to know God's will for your life? Easy. You pray, you listen, you do…. This is the wild simplicity of our God.

The hardest thing is to take less when you can get more.

Who recalls when folks got along without something if it cost too much?

One of the simple but genuine pleasures in life is getting up in the morning and hurrying to a mousetrap you set the night before.

With all the mass media concentrated in a few hands, the ancient faith in the competition of ideas in the free market seems like a hollow echo of a much simpler day.

Incomprehensible jargon is the hallmark of a profession.

How hard can it be?

I don't know where a utopia is supposed to be, or where one could be found. I sometimes think that it is the place where fear and doubt end with the realization that around you is everything you need, and there is nothing else to find.

the Himalayas rose layer upon layer until those gleaming peaks proved a man to be so small that it made sense to give it all up, empty it all out.

There is nothing, absolutely nothing, one cannot do without in life. All wants are dispensable as long as one can absent oneself.

In a time of famine typified by too many words with too much noise in them, we could use fewer words with more silence in them. This is a difficult concept to grasp, but you know it when you hear it. Some of the most effective language in the world leads you up to the brink of silence and leaves you there, with the soft surf of the unsayable lapping at your feet.

Making everything easy to change, makes the entire system very complex...

I kept my life in a small room with pale blue walls and brought it back little presents from the world This is for you I would say This is for you

Simplest explanation usually the right one

Neatness is the hobogoblin of little minds

When they'd first met in their twenties, he'd seemed like such a fascinating mystery. Unfortunately it hadn't taken long to solve it. By the time they were married, Harriet had realized that everything he did was completely predictable. He valued money, sex, status, and food, in that order. Chase was a very simple creature.

La impresión espartana que transmitía correspondería a su naturaleza o a su bolsillo.

You are welcome to your intellectual pastimes and books and art and newspapers welcome, too, to your bars and your whisky that only makes me ill. Here am I in the forest, quite content.

the snail gets up and goes to bed with very little fuss

Miss Kay When Phil walked into our apartment that night, the boys were so happy. The first thing they wanted to know was whether he'd brought back the big TV. All Phil could say was, "I didn't know I was supposed to do that." He looked around the sparse room where we had been living and said, "You should have gotten more stuff." It never was about stuff to me. The last thing we needed during that time was more stuff.

Conservatism and passive acceptance... They can't think for themselves. Anything that's too complicated sends their heads reeling. Makes me want to puke.