Best 1007 quotes in «simplicity quotes» category

Children are born with their own optimism. They have a clarity and a simplicity that we can only wish for.

Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind.

Clutter and confusion are failures of design, not attributes of information.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.

Complexity creates confusion, simplicity focus.

Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching. The simplest utterances are worthiest to bewritten, yet are they so cheap, and so things of course, that, in the infinite riches of the soul, it is like gathering a few pebbles off the ground, or bottling a little air in a phial, when the whole earth and the whole atmosphere are ours.

Converse with a mind that is grandly simple, and literature looks like word-catching.

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

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.

Deride not what I say because of its simplicity. Truth is always simple.

Design principle: Take things away until the design breaks, then put that last thing back in.

Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?

Discipline in typography is a prime virtue. Individuality must be secured by means that are rational. Distinction needs to be won by simplicity and restraint. It is equally true that these qualities need to be infused wiht a certain spirit and vitality, or they degenerate into dullness and mediocrity.

Distractions must be conquered or they will conquer us. So let us cultivate simplicity; let us walk in the Spirit.

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.

Don't let go of the vine.

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Embrace simplicity. Put others first. Desire little.

Embellish the soul with simplicity, with prudence, and everything which is neither virtuous nor vicious. Love all men. Walk according to God; for, as a poet hath said, his laws govern all.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

Even Socrates, who lived a very frugal and simple life, loved to go to the market. When his students asked about this, he replied, "I love to go and see all the things I am happy without.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

Even a billion people is too much. There's no way back to the simplicity we once knew, but there may be a way forward to the simplicity that we once knew.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

Every increased possession loads us with a new weariness.

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).

For effective communication, use brevity. Jesus said, 'Follow me.' Now that's brief! He could be brief because of all that he was that he didn't have to say.

For me, the release was a spot in time with no past and no future. Just the extraordinary simplicity of a moment— the kind of moment that has a funny way of making a person believe that life and love can last forever.

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

For me the camera is a sketch book, an instrument of intuition and spontaneity, the master of the instant which, in visual terms, questions and decides simultaneously. It is by economy of means that one arrives at simplicity of expression.

Four basic premises of writing: clarity, brevity, simplicity, and humanity.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

For us, with the rule of right and wrong given us by Christ, there is nothing for which we have no standard. And there is no greatness where there is not simplicity, goodness, and truth.

Furious activity is no substitute for understanding.

Furniture! Thank God, I can sit and I can stand without the aid of a furniture warehouse.

God is not found in the soul by adding anything but by a process of subtraction.

Gentle Jesus, meek and mild, Look upon a little child; Pity my simplicity, Suffer me to come to thee.

Get rid of anything that isn’t useful, beautiful or joyful.

Genuine magic demands on perfect simplicity of execution.

Good design is as little design as possible. Less, but better - because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.

Going back into the history of a word, very often into Latin, we come back pretty commonly to pictures or models of how things happen or are done. These models may be fairly sophisticated and recent, as is perhaps the case with 'motive' or 'impulse', but one of the commonest and most primitive types of model is one which is apt to baffle us through its very naturalness and simplicity.

Good heavens, of what un costly material is our earthly happiness composed... if we only knew it. What incomes have we not had from a flower, and how unfailing are the dividends of the seasons.

Goodness and simplicity are indissolubly united.-The bad are the most sophisticated, all the world over, and the good the least.