Simplicity Quotes - Page 32

• The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Reliability, May, Pay

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Tony Hoare's lecture at the 1980 ACM Turing Award in Nashville, Tennessee; "Communications of the ACM", Volume 24, Issue 2, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

  Tony Hoare

  Roots, Evil, Debugging

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• If you cannot grok the overall structure of a program while taking a shower, you are not ready to code it.

  Richard E. Pattis

  Program, Structure, Showers

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• It all depends on whether you have things, or they have you.

  Robert A. Cook

  Motivational, Success, Inspire

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• To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

  Don Altman

  Life, Alive, Elegance

  Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library

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• Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.

  Rainer Maria Rilke

  Life, Lying, Fate

  Rainer Maria Rilke (1984). “Prose and poetry”, Burns & Oates

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• A designer can mull over complicated designs for months. Then suddenly the simple, elegant, beautiful solution occurs to him. When it happens to you, it feels as if God is talking! And maybe He is.

  Leo Frankowski

  Beautiful, Simple, Talking

  Leo Frankowski (2004). “Conrad Stargard: The Radiant Warrior”, p.155, Baen Publishing Enterprises

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• True simplicity is, well, you just keep on going and going until you get to the point where you go... Yeah, well, of course.

  Jonathan Ive

  Design, Yeah, Wells

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• More good code has been written in languages denounced as "bad'' than in languages proclaimed "wonderful'' - much more.

  Bjarne Stroustrup

  Language, Wonderful, Code

  Bjarne Stroustrup (1994). “The Design and Evolution of C++”, Addison-Wesley Professional

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• We have a passion for keeping things simple.

  Charlie Munger

  Passion, Simple, Insightful

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• The harder you work, the more confidence you get. But you may be working hard on something that is false.

  Charlie Munger

  Insightful, May, Harder

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• Avoiding complexity reduces bugs.

  Linus Torvalds

  Bugs, Programming, Complexity

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• We either have wild places or we don't. We admit the spiritual-emotional validity of wild, beautiful places or we don't. We have a philosophy of simplicity of experience in these wild places or we don't. We admit an almost religious devotion to the clean exposition of the wild, natural earth or we don't.

  Ansel Adams

  Beautiful, Spiritual, Religious

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• Whenever there is a simple error that most laymen fall for, there is always a slightly more sophisticated version of the same problem that experts fall for.

  Amos Tversky

  Wisdom, Mistake, Fall

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• Today's complexities demand greater simplicity.

  L. Tom Perry

  Demand, Today, Complexity

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• The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

  Pope John Paul II

  Prayer, Rosary, Depth

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• So with that will prompt and prepared to serve all those whom I perceive to be servants of my Lord, I will speak of three things with simplicity and love as if I were speaking to my own soul.

  Ignatius of Loyola

  Soul, And Love, Three

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• The simplest things give me ideas.

  Joan Miro

  Ideas, Giving, Simple Life

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• The minimum could be defined as the perfection that an artefact achieves when it is no longer possible to improve it by subtraction. This is the quality that an object has when every component, every detail, and every junction has been reduced or condensed to the essentials. it is the result of the omission of the inessentials.

  John Pawson

  Omission, Perfection, Quality

  "Less really is more" by Luke Jennings, www.theguardian.com. November 25, 2006.

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• I am learning that a man can live profoundly without masses of things.

  Richard E. Byrd

  Men, Mass

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• He who hoards much loses much.

  Laozi

  Loses

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• In this apparatus is nothing new but its simplicity and thorough trustworthiness. On his revolutionary method of organic analysis.

  Justus von Liebig

  Science, Analysis, Revolutionary

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• Analyse data just so far as to obtain simplicity and no further.

  Henri Poincare

  Data

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• Avoid complexities. Make everything as simple as possible.

  Henry Maudslay

  Simple, Complexity

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• Besides it is an error to believe that rigour is the enemy of simplicity. On the contrary we find it confirmed by numerous examples that the rigorous method is at the same time the simpler and the more easily comprehended. The very effort for rigor forces us to find out simpler methods of proof.

  David Hilbert

  Believe, Math, Errors

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