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• I am a great believer in the simplicity of things and as you probably know I am inclined to hang on to broad & simple ideas like grim death until evidence is too strong for my tenacity.

  Ernest Rutherford

  Strong, Science, Simple

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• I was sitting in a chair in the patent office at Bern when all of a sudden a thought occurred to me: "If a person falls freely he will not feel his own weight." I was startled. This simple thought made a deep impression on me. It impelled me toward a theory of gravitation.

  Albert Einstein

  Fall, Science, Simple

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• If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

  Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

  Science, Simple, Understanding

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• If we seek for the simplest arrangement, which would enable it [the eye] to receive and discriminate the impressions of the different parts of the spectrum, we may suppose three distinct sensations only to be excited by the rays of the three principal pure colours, falling on any given point of the retina, the red, the green, and the violet; while the rays occupying the intermediate spaces are capable of producing mixed sensations, the yellow those which belong to the red and green, and the blue those which belong to the green and violet.

  Thomas Young

  Fall, Eye, Science

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• In the simplest array of digits [Ramanujan] detected wonderful properties: congruences, symmetries and relationships which had escaped the notice of even the outstandingly gifted theoreticians.

  James R Newman

  Ramanujan, Wonder, Congruence

  James R. Newman (1960). “The World of Mathematics”, p.367, Рипол Классик

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• It is always the nearest, plainest and simplest principles that learned men comprehend last.

  Elbert Hubbard

  Learning, Science, Men

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• Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science.

  Bertrand Russell

  Development, Owing, Matter

  Bertrand Russell (2009). “The Scientific Outlook”, p.42, Routledge

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• Prejudice for regularity and simplicity is a source of error that has only too often infected philosophy.

  Roger Joseph Boscovich

  Philosophy, Science, Errors

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• I think that a person who is attached to riches, who lives with the worry of riches, is actually very poor. If this person puts his money at the service of others, then he is rich, very rich.

  Mother Teresa

  Thinking, Worry, Riches

  Mother Teresa, Mother Teresa of Calcutta (2010). “In the Heart of the World: Thoughts, Stories & Prayers”, p.70, New World Library

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• One day there springs up the desire for money and for all that money can provide — the superfluous, luxury in eating, luxury in dressing, trifles. Needs increase because one thing calls for another. The result is uncontrollable dissatisfaction. Let us remain as empty as possible so that God can fill us up.

  Mother Teresa

  Spring, Shopping, Luxury

  "No Greater Love, Commemorative Edition".

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• Do nondoing, strive for non-stiving, savor the flavourless, make much of little, repay enmity with virture; plan for difficulty when it is still easy, do the great while it is still small.

  Laozi

  Enmity, Littles, Easy

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• Simplicity is an exact mediumbetween too little and too much.

  Joshua Reynolds

  Littles, Too Much

  Sir Joshua Reynolds, Thomas Gray, Charles-Alphonse Dufresnoy, William Mason (1851). “The literary works of Sir Joshua Reynolds”, p.294

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• Simplicity and order are, if not the principal, then certainly the most important guidelines for human beings in general.

  M. C. Escher

  Order, Important, Guidelines

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• Phenomena complex-laws simple....Know what to leave out.

  Richard P. Feynman

  Simple, Law, Complexes

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• Whatever is most abstract may perhaps be the summit of reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, May, Abstract

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• To arrive at abstraction, it is always necessary to begin with a concrete reality.

  Pablo Picasso

  Reality, Concrete, Abstraction

  Pablo Picasso (1972). “Picasso on art: a selection of views”, Viking Adult

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• This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

  Albert Szent-Gyorgyi

  Paper, Written

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• I'll tell you what you need to be a great scientist. You don't have to be able understand very complicated things. It's just the opposite. You have to be able to see what looks like the most complicated thing in the world and, in a flash, find the underlying simplicity. That's what you need: a talent for simplicity.

  Mitchell A. Wilson

  Opposites, Needs, Looks

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• Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

  Edward de Bono

  Mean, Effort, Complexity

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• Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.

  Tony Hoare

  Struggle, Program

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• The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.

  Steve McConnell

  Elements, Movement, Projects

  Steve McConnell (1997). “Software Project Survival Guide”, p.48, Microsoft Press

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• The single most effective way to make a service as reliable as possible is to make it as simple as possible. Find the simplest solution that meets all the requirements.

  Tom Limoncelli

  Simple, Requirements, Way

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• Developing fewer features allows you to conserve development resources and spend more time refining those features that users really need. Fewer features mean fewer things to confuse users, less risk of user errors, less description and documentation, and therefore simpler Help content. Removing any one feature automatically increases the usability of the remaining ones.

  Jakob Nielsen

  Mean, Errors, Risk

  Jakob Nielsen, Hoa Loranger (2006). “Prioritizing Web Usability”, p.519, Pearson Education

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• Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

  David Heinemeier Hansson

  Essence, Desire, Needs

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• Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).

  Larry Tesler

  Complexity, Deals, Application

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