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Quotes About Simplicity

A theory that you can't explain to a bartender is probably no damn good.
~ Ernest Rutherford
But the reality is when you write a song, you should be able to strip away all the instruments and just have a song right there with an acoustic guitar and a voice, and the song should be good.
~ Dweezil Zappa
Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.
~ Sailor Jerry
If it's good enough for beagles, it's good enough for me.
~ Richard Littlejohn
The ambition of every good cook must be to make something very good with the fewest possible ingredients.
~ Urbain Dubois
You don't need a silver fork to eat good food.
~ Paul Prudhomme
A guy's biggest style mistake is definitely trying to look too cool. As long as you've got a good pair of jeans, a good pair of boots and a few good shirts, you're fine.
~ Luke Evans
It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.
~ Alexis Soyer
Good design, when done well, should be invisible.
~ Jared Spool
Good design emphasises the usefulness of a product whilst disregarding anything that could possibly detract from it.
~ Dieter Rams
Good design is probably 98% common sense. Above all, an object must function well and efficiently-and getting that part right requires a good deal of time and attention.
~ Terence Conran
We should work for simple, good, undecorated things, but things which are in harmony with the human being and organically suited to the little man in the street.
~ Alvar Aalto
It's easy to impress me. I don't need a fancy party to be happy. Just good friends, good food, and good laughs. I'm happy. I'm satisfied. I'm content.
~ Maria Sharapova
I don't enjoy good food. I don't enjoy flashy cars. I don't care if I live in a dump. I don't enjoy good clothes. This is the best I've dressed in months.
~ Jack Kevorkian
Good design is a lot like clear thinking made visual.
~ Edward Tufte
Good photography is unpretentious.
~ Walker Evans
I'm a very good packer, but I probably take too much in the way of toiletries. You only really need a toothbrush, as most places you go to have a bar of soap and some shampoo.
~ Laurence Fox
I'm into mellow dates with really good food.
~ Lauren Conrad
I like normal, simple, good people.
~ Sandra Bullock
If POSIX threads are a good thing, perhaps I don't want to know what they're better than.
~ Rob Pike
Good food depends almost entirely on good ingredients.
~ Alice Waters
Good things come in small packages.
~ Aesop
Good taste is the modesty of the mind; that is why it cannot be either imitated or acquired.
~ Emile de Girardin
There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.
~ Frank Gehry