Quotes About Simplicity

The ability to reduce everything to simple fundamental laws does not imply the ability to start from those laws and reconstruct the universe.

My family lived off the land and summer evening meals featured baked stuffed tomatoes, potato salad, corn on the cob, fresh shelled peas and homemade ice cream with strawberries from our garden. With no air conditioning in those days, the cool porch was the center of our universe after the scorching days.

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

I think the major good idea in Unix was its clean and simple interface: open, close, read, and write.

I have no ambition to surprise my reader. Castles with unknown passages are not compatible with my homely muse.

The people were simpler, more peaceable and friendly in their manners and dispositions; and assassinations, which give the southern provinces so ill a reputation, were almost unknown.

Less is more, unless you're Al Gore.

I have not much love for the bright lights - unless it's the sun creeping up over the horizon.

I wish I were a girl again, half-savage and hardy, and free.

To speak but little becomes a woman; and she is best adorned who is in plain attire.

Men are simple creatures. It doesn't take much to please us. The problem is women.

The happiest people I have known in this world have been the Saints-and, after these, the men and women who get immediate and conscious enjoyment from little things.

Women are complex and subtle. Men are simple and direct.

Be plain in dress, and sober in your diet; In short, my deary, kiss me, and be quiet.

French women don't have too many clothes - a few good pieces that last for a while and are classic and timeless.

These women of mine are decent, simple human beings who have no other concern than that of their physical condition... it is as though one were watching through a keyhole.

It is surprising how many great men and women a small house will contain.

There are comics who treat women fairly appallingly. But I can be great friends with them because I don't tend to do that ticking of boxes: it can make life too simplistic.

There is nothing touches our imagination so much as a beautiful woman in a plain dress.

I was a home-schooled kid, living in the forest, and I didn't even have cable. I'm serious.

For just as some women are said to be handsome though without adornment, so this subtle manner of speech, though lacking in artificial graces, delights us.

To tell you the truth, I don't really follow what men wear. Men's fashion is much simpler than women's. It doesn't change as much.

Back then, a few doilies and napkins were all that a lot of women had. In the little house where I grew up, the pillowcases my grandmother embroidered were the only things of beauty.

I love guys and the way they think; they're so straightforward - and women can learn from that.