Quotes About Simplicity

There's a brilliant quote by Tony Hoare in his Turing Award speech about how there are two ways to design a system: "One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.

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Add to that the age-old principle of Ockham's razor in problem-solving: "If there are a number of possible solutions, the simplest one, based on the fewest assumptions, is most likely to be correct.

What I know for sure is that when you declutter – whether it's on your home, your head, or your heart – it is astounding what will flow into that space that will enrich you, your life, and your family.

If the stuff you own is not helping you create the life you want, then let it go.

Not sure what you use and what you don't? Here is a tried and true way to find out. Empty the contents of your kitchen utensil drawers into a cardboard box. For one month, only put a utensil back into the drawer if you take it out of the box to use it. At the end of the month seriously consider discarding everything that's still in the cardboard box. Face it: If it's still in the box after four weeks, you don't need it!

Now's the time to get rid of your first batch of malignant clutter. If you simply must have a reminder that this stuff was part of your life, take a picture of it, then tuck away the physical photo in a desk or stick the digital version deep into the belly of your computer. It's time to give this clutter to the world outside your home.

I've told you before, Daniel: roach isn't an insult. We're the ones still standing after the mammals build their nukes, we're the ones with the stripped-down OS's so damned simple they work under almost any circumstances. We're the goddamned Kalashnikovs of thinking meat.

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't." —Emerson M. Pugh

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn't.

THE HUMAN BRAIN WERE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULD UNDERSTAND IT, WE WOULD BE SO SIMPLE THAT WE COULDN'T. —Emerson M. Pugh

Yoksa, hakikaten bahtiyar insan?n bahtiyar görünmek için o kadar gürültü pat?rd?ya ne ihtiyac? var?

Uyuyamad?m, a?r?lar?m artt?, fakat ruhi azab?ma nispetle çok asil, sade ve saf olan et ?st?rab?m? o gece sevdim.

Albert Einstein once described his rules of work: "One: Out of clutter, find simplicity. Two: From discord, find harmony. Three: In the middle of difficulty lies opportunity.

Truth doesn't need elaboration or embellishment; it can stand on its own two legs. All the adornment in the world doesn't make the truth any more true.

It's much simpler to wear the right clothes, eat the right food, and wear the right hairstyle than it is to love mercy and do justice. No wonder so many people have reduced religion to these simple, attainable standards.

In my experience, Corporal, the best police work looks like nothing at all and is always soon forgotten." I

Some things you know all your life. They are so simple and true they must be said without elegance, meter and rhyme...they must be naked and alone, they must stand for themselves.

The most complex analyses grow beautifully simple as they become public objects.

How easy life is when it's easy, and how hard when it's hard.

The ingredients of health and long life, are great temperance, open air, easy labor, and little care.

For grammar it [poetry] might have, but it needs it not; being so easy in itself, and so void of those cumbersome differences of cases, genders, moods, and tenses, which, I think, was a piece of the Tower of Babylon's curse, that a man shoult be put to school to learn his mother-tongue.

One of the joys of being in love is that it clarifies your priorities. Complication arises from not knowing what you want.

Occam's Razor' (so-called because the principle encourages one to cut out unnecessary complications from theory) is ultimately aesthetic: why postulate two things when one will do? Or as Occam is said to have put it, 'It is vain to do with more what can be done with fewer'.