Quotes About Clarity

A dog, if you point at something, will look only at your finger.

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.

I never knew whether to pity or congratulate a man on coming to his senses.

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.

Frustra fit per plura quod potest fieri per pauciora [It is futile to do with more things that which can be done with fewer]

et tamen nihil est sciens vel quiescens, nisi actualiter sit sciens vel quiescens.

It is vain to do with more what can be done with less.

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity

he may never be quite sure his picture is the only one which could explain his observations

My words fly up, my thoughts remain below: Words without thoughts never to heaven go.

I am but mad north-north-west. When the wind is southerly, I know a hawk from a handsaw.

I say, there is no darkness but ignorance; in which thou art more puzzled than the Egyptians in their fog.

There are no tricks in plain and simple faith.

More matter with less art.