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Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.

Perfect beauty implies perfect simplicity, a quality that at first sight does not arouse the emotions which we feel before gigantic works, objects whose very disproportion constitutes an element of beauty.

Perfect simplicity is unconsciously audacious.

Perhaps it is not without reason that we attribute facility in belief and conviction to simplicity and ignorance; for it seems to me I once learned that belief was sort of an impression made on our mind, and that the softer it is the less resistant t.

Persuading through Simplifying - Using computing technology to reduce complex behavior to simple tasks increases the benefit/cost ratio of the behavior and influences users to perform the behavior.

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

Plurality should not be assumed without necessity.

Practically speaking, a life that is vowed to simplicity, appropriate boldness, good humor, gratitude, unstinting work and play, and lots of walking, brings us close to the actually existing world and its wholeness.

Pray, for what do we move ever but to get rid of our furniture, our exuviæ; at last to go from this world to another newly furnished, and leave this to be burned?

Pray God, keep us simple.

Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

Pray silently with simplicity every day to stay cool and calm in mind, composed and collected in heart; courageous and connected to own soul, to lay the way for a peaceful life.

Psychosynthesis brings the matter to a point of extreme simplicity, seeing the self as the most elementary and distinctive part of our beings - in other words, its core. This core is of an entirely different nature from all the elements (physical sensations, feelings, thoughts and so on) that make up our personality. As a consequence, it can act as a unifying center, directing those element and bring them into the unity of an organic wholeness.

Progress is man's ability to complicate simplicity.

Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.

Receive all with simplicity that happens to you

Receive with simplicity everything that happens to you.

Realize thy Simple Self, Embrace thy Original Nature.

Reduction! One wants to say more than nature and one makes the impossible mistake of wanting to say it with more means than she, instead of fewer.

See it big, and keep it simple.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.

Simple is boring, challenging is routine, impossible takes a little longer.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Simple and faithless as a smile and shake of the hand.

Simplicity means to choose ways of living that touch the Earth more lightly and that reduce our ecological footprint.

Simplicity, without which no human performance can arrive at perfection.

Simpler companies are user centered. They adapt to the needs of day-to-day decision makers.

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

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

Simplicity is not the same as stupidity

Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important.

Simplicity is the highest goal, achievable when you have overcome all difficulties.

Simplicity is the mean between ostentation and rusticity.

Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.

Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid.

Simplicity and complexity need each other.

Simplicity is an acquired taste. Mankind, left free, instinctively complicates life.

Simplicity is an enduring habit within a soul that has grown impervious to evil thoughts.

Simplicity is making the journey of this life with just baggage enough.

Simplicity is not a goal, but one arrives at simplicity in spite of oneself, as one approaches the real meaning of things.

Simplicity is the great friend to nature, and if I would be proud of anything in this silly world, it should be of this honest alliance.

Simplicity of living means meeting life face to face. It means confronting life clearly, without unnecessary distractions. It means being direct and honest in relationships of all kinds. It means taking life as it is.

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

Simplicity and sincerity generally go hand in hand, as both proceed from a love of truth.

Simplicity is a difficult thing to achieve.

Simplicity is the essence of universality.