Quotes About Simplicity

A good writer is one you can read without breaking a sweat.

I'm an advocate for buying few, but very good quality pieces of clothing, and if you do that you need to take care of them.

Primitive, naive drawing can also be good drawing but it's hard to pull off. I don't think most submitters realize that.

I'm not a particularly good cook. Part of it is that it is the kind of cooking anybody could do if they bothered. It's improvisational. I cook with whatever I have laying around.

If a good word already exists, there is no need to invent something painful.

A large brain, like large government, may not be able to do simple things in a simple way.

I would have been glad to have lived under my wood side, and to have kept a flock of sheep, rather than to have undertaken this government.

The previous Governments took pride in making laws, but I am happier removing laws. Let's open the windows, let some fresh air come in.

Govern a great nation as you would cook a small fish. (Don't overdo it.)

Good design is making something intelligible and memorable. Great design is making something memorable and meaningful.

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.

One of my most productive days was throwing away 1,000 lines of code.

As designers we have a great responsibility. I believe designers should eliminate the unnecessary. That means eliminating everything that is modish because this kind of thing is only short-lived.

I think there's something great and generic about goldfish. They're everybody's first pet.

The great artist is the simplifier.

The great person never loses a childlike spirit.

Great knowledge sees all in one. Small knowledge breaks down into the many.

There is great freedom in simplicity of living.

Just as the ability to devise simple but evocative models is the signature of the great scientist so overelaboration and overparameterization is often the mark of mediocrity.

Focus is about saying, No. And the result of that focus is going to be some really great products where the total is much greater than the sum of the parts.

Every great change is simple.

There's no great mystery to acting. It's a very simple thing to do but you have to work hard at it. It's about asking questions and using your imagination.

Some great poet or philosopher once said that " he who goes to nature for comfort must go to her empty handed " , and I think he was right.