Quotes About Simplify

I won't rewrite on set, but I'll just trim the fat.

A brand is a storehouse of trust that matters more and more as choices multiply. People want to simplify their lives.

My goal is to simplify complexity. I just want to build stuff that really simplifies our base human interaction.

In a complex and troubling world, who wouldn't want to simplify? Everybody does. Everybody wants to simplify and put up a picket fence.

President Bush says he now wants to simplify the tax code. Only those in the blue states will pay.

Murillio sighed. 'Rallick Nom.' 'What of him?' 'I wish he were here.' 'Why?' 'So he could kill someone. Anyone. The man's a wonder at simplifying matters.' Coll grunted a laugh. '"Simplifying matters." Wait until I tell him that one. Hey, Rallick, you're not an assassin, you know, you're just a man who simplifies.

In a nutshell, calculus wants to make hard problems simpler. It is utterly obsessed with simplicity.

My task is to simplify and then go deeper, making a commitment to what remains. That's what I've been after. To care and polish what remains till it glows and comes alive from loving care.

'Big' problems are overwhelming, but when we distil them down to their simplest forms, then the solutions become simple, too.

We make life difficult, and then we try to solve it. My methodology is to simplify things and share them with life examples.

The way I try to simplify my job is that I have two lists - I have a list of all the crazy, interesting problems that I get to solve every day or that need to be solved, and I have a crazy list of things I'd like to invent. And I kind of just prioritize them and work my way down, and try to simplify what I do when managing a big company.

If you want to encourage some activity, make it easy.

the more you try to simplify things, the more you complicate them.

By simplifying and streamlining the tax filing process it lifts a huge burden off of the middle class.

Design for 80 percent and build separate paths for exceptions. Eliminate or reduce the impact of low-value steps. Simplify complex steps. Combine simple steps. Work to design quality into the work, rather than inspect step outputs after the fact. Use parallel paths wherever possible. Broaden job content and empower employees. Don't design things to the task level unless the risk of variation is unacceptable and you're willing to invest in testing prior to implementation.

Zones are easier just to throw out there and you don't have to really teach it.

I simplify the spices. I'm the same way as everybody else: if I look at a recipe and there's ten spices in it, I'm going to have to think long and hard about when I'm going to be able to make that... so I try to simplify the spices to three or four.

Being able to change the lives of people around me motivates me. I always try to build technology and innovations that solve problems, simplify people's lives, and give others what they want.

The devices meant to simplify our lives merely create new and improved complexities.

Life is too short for confusion; and knowledge grows and progress proceeds along avenues of system which prevent retardation and retrogression, so that he who systematizes his knowledge or business, simplifies and enhances it for his successor, enabling him to begin, with a free mind, where he left off.

The more you summarize, the more order you put in, the less randomness. Hence the same condition that makes us simplify pushes us to think that the world is less random than it actually is. And

we are likely to unwittingly simplify the problem because our minds routinely do so without our knowing it.

separating some people from their fortune would simplify their lives and bring great benefits in the form of healthy stressors.

The resulting measure of future uncertainty satisfies our ingrained desire to simplify even if that means squeezing into one single number matters that are too rich to be described that way.