Famous Quotes & Sayings

Jakob Nielsen

Three Tips: Simplify, Simplify, Simplify.

Isaac Barrow

Upright simplicity is the deepest wisdom, and perverse craft the merest shallowness.

Leonardo da Vinci

simplicity is the best sophistication

Mike Burns

One of the main challenges, for me, has been to keep simplicity in its place. It’s only a tool. It’s not the destination, it’s the vehicle that gets us there

Nelson Goodman

For if as scientists we seek simplicity, then obviously we try the simplest surviving theory first, and retreat from it only when it proves false. Not this course, but any other, requires explanation. If you want to go somewhere quickly, and several alternate routes are equally likely to be open, no one asks why you take the shortest. The simplest theory is to be chosen not because it is the most likely to be true but because it is scientifically the most rewarding among equally likely alternatives. We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Nelson Goodman

We aim at simplicity and hope for truth.

Mary McCarthy

The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Mark Twain

To my mind that literature is best and most enduring which is characterized by a noble simplicity.

Joseph B. Wirthlin

If we only look around us, there are a thousand reasons for us not to be happy, and it is simplicity itself to blame our unhappiness on the things we lack in life. It doesn’t take any talent at all to find them. The problem is, the more we focus on the things we don’t have, the more unhappy and more resentful we become.

Jonathan Stroud

If anyone else asked that question, O He Who Is Terrible and Great, I would have said they were an ignorant fool; in you it is a sign of the disarming simplicity which is the fount of all virtue.

Simplify always - do not complicate.

Edward Teller

The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.

Edward Tufte

Make all visual distinctions as subtle as possible, but still clear and effective.

Henri Matisse

With greater completeness and abstraction, I have attained a form filtered to its essentials.

Henry Ward Beecher

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.

Oliver Stone

I'm more comfortable with simplicity as I get older.

Mason Cooley

Simplicity is a strict taskmaster.

Mariel Hemingway

There are so many things that we love. Whatever it is, there's a lot of really important things that affect how we live our lives, the simplicity of our life, so we love organizations that help make the planet cleaner and healthier, a place where you can be more connected.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we have the khadi spirit in us, then we should surround ourselves with simplicity in every walk of life.

Johannes Kepler

Nature loves simplicity and unity.

Jack Welch

Don't make the process harder than it is.

Rajneesh

Find godliness and good will come on its own accord. And when good comes on its own accord, it has a beauty, a grace, a simplicity, a humbleness.

Emmylou Harris

Simplicity can intensify the emotion.

Henry David Thoreau

Let your capital be simplicity and contentment.

Henry David Thoreau

Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Jon Foreman

It's a great thing to see the strength of simplicity.

What is conceived well is expressed clearly.

The trouble with measurement is its seeming simplicity.

Marissa Mayer

I've always liked simplicity.

Matt Mullenweg

Simplicity not simplistic.

Joan Miro

To gain freedom is to gain simplicity.

Francois Fenelon

God would behold in you a simplicity which will contain so much the more of His wisdom as it contains less of your own.