Quotes About Simplicity

La vita è molto più gradevole se non si passa tutto il tempo a pensare.

yo también estoy de paso por esta vida, por eso no pierdo mi tiempo entreteniendo con cosas materiales y prefiero vivir humildemente.

She wanted only tall smooth bottles whose labels spoke of Proof.

It's so nice to be able to end a sentence with a preposition when it's easier.

What I know about auto racing could be inscribed with a dry Magic Marker on the lip of a Coke bottle.

In this instance, he was wise enough to be suspicious of his own desire to seem wise, and to refuse to indulge in it….my father understood that advice - even wise advice - actually does nothing for the advisee, changes nothing inside, and can actually cause confusion when the advisee is made to feel the wide gap between the comparative simplicity of the advice and the totally muddled complications of his own situation and path.

The people who are rebelling meaningfully don't buy a lot of stuff.

He knew what the Beats know and what the great tennis player knows, son: learn to do nothing, with your whole head and body, and everything will be done by what's around you.

Good-Looking Men in Small Clever Rooms That Utilize Every Centimeter of Available Space With Mind-Boggling Efficiency.

Every element in a design should be expressed to the extent necessary, but not beyond the extent necessary. Excess is noise.

Simplicity is achieved when everyone can easily understand and use the design, regardless of experience, literacy, or concentration level.

Objects and environments that embody naturalness, simplicity, and subtle imperfection achieve a deeper, more meaningful aesthetic.

These are trivial details, but they relate to happy times.

Thus then lived this folk in much plenty and ease of life, though not delicately nor desiring things out of measure. They wrought with their hands and wearied themselves; and they rested from their toil and feasted and were merry: to-morrow was not a burden to them, nor yesterday a thing which they would fain forget: life shamed them not, nor did death make them afraid.

With all things being equal, the simplest explanation tends to be the right one.

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

All things being equal, the simplest solution tends to be the best one.

Keep things simple.

It is futile to do with more what can be done with fewer.

Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem.

Pluralitas non est ponenda sine neccesitate. (Entities should not be multiplied unnecessarily.)

Numquam ponenda est pluralitas sine necessitate [Plurality must never be posited without necessity]

Plurality is never to be posited without necessity.

It is futile to do with more things, that which can be done with less.