Simplicity Quotes - Page 35

• The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.

  Dorothea Johnson

  Humility, Expression, Perfect

  Dorothea Johnson (2002). “Tea and Etiquette”, p.43, Capital Books

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• Simplicity is the essence of universality.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Essence, Universality

  Mahatma Gandhi (1967). “The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi”, p.87, Rajpal & Sons

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• The great artist and thinker are the simplifiers.

  Henri Frederic Amiel

  Artist, Great Art, Thinker

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• Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.

  Maurice Saatchi

  Goal, Outcomes, Starting

  "Maurice Saatchi on his 'brutal simplicity of thought'" by Steve Armstrong, www.theguardian.com. September 6, 2010.

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• The more simple we are, the more complete we become.

  Auguste Rodin

  Simple

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• ...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.

  Bertolt Brecht

  Difficult, Software Design

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• Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

  Alan Kay

  Simple, Should, Programming

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• At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.

  Tony Hoare

  Determination, Learning, Code Quality

  "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24, dl.acm.org. February 1981.

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• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  Bela Bartok

  Mean, Order, Ideas

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• Never overlook the power of simplicity.

  Robin Sharma

  Powerful

  Twitter post from Dec 30, 2016

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• Simplicity is the trademark of GENIUS

  Robin Sharma

  Genius, Trademarks

  Twitter post from Dec 25, 2016

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• I long for the simplicity of theatre. I want lessons learned, comeuppances delivered, people sorted out, all before your bladder gets distractingly full. That's what I want. What I know is what we all know, whether we'll admit it or not: every attempt to impose the roundness of a well-made play on reality produces a disaster. Life just isn't so, nor will it be made so.

  John M. Ford

  Reality, Play, Long

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• The defining qualities are about use: ease and simplicity. Caring beyond the functional imperative, we also acknowledge that products have a significance way beyond traditional views of function.

  Jonathan Ive

  Caring, Views, Quality

  Design Museum Interview, designmuseum.org. 2007.

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• There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

  Jonathan Ive

  Real, Simple, Style

  "Disclosure 02: Apple G5 Unpacked". HWM, May 2004.

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• The quest for simplicity has to pervade every part of the process. It really is fundamental.

  Jonathan Ive

  Fundamentals, Quests, Process

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• For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

  Christopher Ricks

  Good Man, May, Characteristics

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• There' something about universal truths with the simplicity of the acoustic guitar. You can take it anywhere and it helps me reach listeners of all ages and walks of life.

  Jim Croce

  Guitar, Age, Acoustics

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• You will notice that the work is simple obedience. It is not complicated things, it is not fancy things or getting great spiritual manifestations. This work is within the abilities of the most humble and the least educated.

  Henry B. Eyring

  Education, Spiritual, Humble

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• Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

  Marina Warner

  Heart, Simple, Creating

  Marina Warner (2013). “Joan of Arc: The Image of Female Heroism”, p.249, Oxford University Press, USA

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• Its true. Im a simple person. Some people tend to live from trauma to trauma, and that energizes them. I have a hectic schedule, but my mind seeks simplicity - like being in nature, a long bike ride, or sitting on the back porch.

  Amy Grant

  Simple, Hectic Schedule, Long

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• It is India that gave us the ingenious method of expressing all numbers by means of ten symbols, each symbol receiving a value of position as well as an absolute value; a profound and important idea which appears so simple to us now that we ignore its true merit. But its very simplicity and the great ease which it has lent to computations put our arithmetic in the first rank of useful inventions; and we shall appreciate the grandeur of the achievement the more when we remember that it escaped the genius of Archimedes and Apollonius, two of the greatest men produced by antiquity.

  Pierre-Simon Laplace

  Education, Appreciation, Mean

  "Return to Mathematical Circles". Book by Howard Eves, 1988.

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• Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

  Antonio Gaudi

  Mean, Originality, Resources

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• I loved the quiet places in Kyoto, the places that held the world within a windless moment. Inside the temples, Nature held her breath. All longing was put to sleep in the stillness, and all was distilled into a clean simplicity.
  The smell of woodsmoke, the drift of incense; a procession of monks in black-and-gold robes, one of them giggling in a voice yet unbroken; a touch of autumn in the air, a sense of gathering rain.

  Pico Iyer

  Rain, Sleep, Autumn

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• Heaven is weary of the luxury of China. I shall remain in the wilderness of the north. I shall return to simplicity and moderations once again. As for the clothes I wear and the food I eat, I shall have the same as cowherds and grooms and I shall treat my soldiers as brothers. In a hundred battles I have been at the forefront and within seven years I have performed a great work, for in six directions of space all things are subject to one ruler.

  Genghis Khan

  Brother, Luxury, Clothes

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• Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

  Dean Cavanagh

  Practice, Excuse, Complexity

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