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    The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.

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    The painter who is so enamoured by the beauties of the parts of a landscape, that he strives to represent all, cannot succeed. His picture will be an arrangement of a series of portraits of things without unity... There must be variety and contrast, but in measured doses.

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    The ordinary acts we practice every day at home are of more importance to the soul than their simplicity might suggest.

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    The point of philosophy is to start with something so simple as not to seem worth stating, and to end with something so paradoxical that no one will believe it.

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    The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

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    The paradox of simplicity is that making things simpler is hard work.

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    The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

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    The principles of good human-to-computer interface design are simplicity, support, clarity, encouragement, satisfaction, accessibility, versatility, and personalization. While it’s essential to heed these, it’s also important to empathize with and inspire your audience so they feel you’re treating them less like a faceless user and more like a human being.

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    The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich may find hard to pay.

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    There are men whose manners have the same essential splendor as the simple and awful sculpture on the friezes of the Parthenon, and the remains of the earliest Greek art.

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

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    The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.

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    There is no artifice as good and desirable as simplicity.

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    There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!

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    There is great freedom in simplicity of living, and after I began to feel this, I found harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being. There is a great deal to be said about such harmony, not only for an individual life but also for the life of a society. It's because as a world we have gotten ourselves so far out of harmony, so way off on the material side, that when we discover something like nuclear energy we are still capable of putting it into a bomb and using it to kill people! This is because our inner well-being lags so far behind our outer well-being.

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    There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity.

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

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    There cannot be a language more universal and more simple, more free from errors and obscurities...more worthy to express the invariable relations of all natural things [than mathematics]. [It interprets] all phenomena by the same language, as if to attest the unity and simplicity of the plan of the universe, and to make still more evident that unchangeable order which presides over all natural causes

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    There is nothing more difficult than simplicity, and therefore, nothing more refined.

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    There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to say; before you try a complicated hypothesis, you should make quite sure that no simplification of it will explain the facts equally well.

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    There's been an awful lot of discussion about what is or isn't simple, and people have gotten a pretty sophisticated notion of simplicity, but I'm not sure it has helped.

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    There's a simplicity in typography that demands absolute accuracy... the only way you can experience it is by doing it, and you can't do it on a screen because a screen never gives you the entire picture.

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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.

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    The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity

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    The Rosary is my favorite prayer. A marvelous prayer! Marvelous in its simplicity and its depth. In the prayer we repeat many times the words that the Virgin Mary heard from the Archangel, and from her kinswoman Elizabeth.

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    The savage lives simply through ignorance and idleness or laziness, but the philosopher lives simply through wisdom.

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    The simplest words,--we do not know what they mean except when we love and aspire.

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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.

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    The research worker, in his efforts to express the fundamental laws of Nature in mathematical form, should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty ... It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and beauty are the same, but where they clash, the latter must take precedence.

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    The rose has told In one simplicity That never life Relinquishes a bloom But to bestow An ancient confidence.

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    The safest course was actually the simplest-do nothing at all and hope everything turned out for the best. It wasn't a great plan, but it had the benefits of simplicity and a long tradition.

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    The simplicities of natural laws arise through the complexities of the language we use for their expression.

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    The simplicity of the universe is very different from the simplicity of a machine. The simplicity of nature is not that which may be easily read but is inexhaustible. The last analysis can no wise be made.

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    The simplicity that all this presupposes is not easy to attain. I find that my life constantly threatens to become complex and divisive. A life of prayer is basically a very simple life. This simplicity, however, is the result of asceticism and effort: it is not a spontaneous simplicity.

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    The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

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    The simplified life is a sanctified life, Much more calm, much less strife. Oh, what wondrous truths are unveiled- Projects succeed which had previously failed. Oh, how beautiful life can be, Beautiful simplicity.

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    The superiority of the Greeks seems not so much the result of climate and society, as of the simplicity of their end and the uniformity of their means.

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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.

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    The simplest things give me ideas.

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    The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.

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    The simplicity we are looking for is not found in thought. It knows what you have to listen to in every moment and knows it can never make a mistake. It is the infinite working in the infinite. It projects into this world because we are here to do that.

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    The things that are essential are acquired with little bother; it is the luxuries that call for toil and effort.

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    The sweet simplicity of the three percents.

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    The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity.

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    The wealth of a soul is measured by how much it can feel; its poverty by how little.

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    The waste of life occasioned by trying to do too many things at once is appalling.

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    The wisdom of life consists in the elimination of non-essentials.

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    The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

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    The true friend of truth and good loves them under all forms, but he loves them most under the most simple form.

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