Simplicity Quotations | Page 2

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is 'not complex or complicated; sincere.'

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

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

Disney's House of the Future had the clean simplicity prized in the 1950s as relief from decades of frayed patchwork, jury-rigging, and make-do clutter caused by Depression and war.

Do not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends... Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.

Poor and content is rich, and rich enough.

More customers are signing up with us and buying products online because we've made security and simplicity our top priorities.

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

I wish there was a better word for it, because I can't use it in any of my marketing, but it really is the essence of what we're doing. People want to come to meet one person, make all their decisions and do everything in one place. In 2006, people want simplicity and convenience.

Like I said earlier, the movie is metaphorical for the world. Today we're seeing so many instances of monumental duplicity, ... I think that's the task, in a way, to show what an architect of duplicity this character is, in his simplicity, forthrightness and morality. It's a strange and wonderful study of how far a horrible lie can be taken in terms of a character.

Last year, we were criticized for the simplicity of the maps. This is the sort of quality with maps that we demanded when I was with Rand McNally.

There are people who like the simplicity of getting all this in one bill from one company. There are a lot of other people who get bill shock from getting one bill for all these services.

There are two different uses for a zone. Surprise and change or simplicity and execution. We use it for surprise.

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

Mirapoint's multi-layered approach to spam, including its unique MailHurdle technology, was the ideal solution for Jayman's spam problem. By blocking spam at the edge of the network, then filtering for content, Mirapoint demonstrated high accuracy rates -- ensuring executives aren't spending hours each day searching for 'lost' email. The simplicity of an appliance with robust user controls and high accuracy rates made the switch to Mirapoint nearly invisible to end-users. All they noticed was better email.

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Simplicity is always favored by the public. When it's easy to understand, it's easier to get the public to vote yes.

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Simplicity of character is no hindrance to subtlety of intellect.

Simplicity of character is the natural result of profound thought.

Seniors are attracted to the simplicity of the storefronts, ... They would rather speak one-on-one with a person.

Mozart in his music was probably the most reasonable of the world's great composers. It is the happy balance between flight and control, between sensibility and self-discipline, simplicity and sophistication of style that is his particular province... Mozart tapped once again the source from which all music flows, expressing himself with a spontaneity and refinement and breath-taking rightness that has never since been duplicated.

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

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could be right in front of you.

We can begin to let go of the complications that cause us to suffer by cultivating a simple state of awareness. In this process, tiny steps yield big results, in part because simplicity is nature's default position. Suffering and the complications that fuel it are unnatural; it wastes energy to maintain complexity.

As you let go of the complications, emotional toxins, and everything else that isn't serving you, you will be free to experience the happiness that exists in simplicity.

Being incomprehensible offers unparalleled protection against having nothing to say...but writing with simplicity requires courage, for there is a danger that one will be overlooked, dismissed as simpleminded by those with a tenacious belief that the impassable prose is a hallmark of intelligence.

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

If you wish to be like a little child, study what a little child could understand — nature; and do what a little child could do — love.

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.

Unix is simple and coherent, but it takes a genius (or at any rate, a programmer) to understand and appreciate the simplicity..

Simplicity is always a virtue.

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

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

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better

Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.

I am so excited to be part of the team helping rights owners sell directly to music fans and enabling the legitimate sharing of the music they love with friends and family. It takes digital music distribution to the next level of choice, simplicity and flexibility.

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.

We take the view it is good to have simplicity and clarity. It is no good having benchmarks that no-one can relate to.

Hundreds of thousands of satisfied TaxBrain.com electronic filers point to cost, convenience and simplicity as the most important factors in their decision to switch - and their commitment to never go back.

HP is adding simplicity for HP-UX customers that also buy their management software. They can overlay this ID management tool for the operating system and reduce wasted resources on server management.

He (understood) from a child the simplicity of complex music and the complexity of simple music. He has something that I don't have, which is perfect pitch. He knows what key everything is by hearing it once.

If we play anything like we know we are capable of, we will win. That is the simplicity of it sometimes.

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

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.

That brings a measure of simplicity to pricing and reliability assuring shoppers that what they can buy today will never be offered at a lower price.

Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost.

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as easy as they thought.

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

I would like to tell that I was really loved, with the simplicity, ... What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

The ANGEL approach has produced an LMS that's different. We've gained distinction for creating an appealing balance of simplicity and power. We've obsessed about how to improve both of these -- making the product even easier to use and yet more powerful. And we're especially pleased to have blended in features like our new Learning Object Repository and LIVE synchronous tools as core features to extend value unique in the industry.

We're unveiling a range of innovations that deliver an outstanding level of power and simplicity to search.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

We have attached a great deal of importance to relieving the IT and management burden that content security can place on those responsible. We have been able to break new ground in this key area and it's important that businesses understand that security and simplicity are no longer mutually exclusive -- they can have the high-quality content security they require, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of the valuable time of highly trained staff.

Microsoft's best marketing for Vista will come from simplicity -- making the value of Vista as easy to understand as possible, so people can look and say Vista is a lot better than the version they have now, Are there too many of them to communicate the value of Vista?

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

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

The products have pretty much converged together. You are seeing simplicity built more into computers, and more memory built in TVs -- so that the clean division between the two doesn't exist anymore.

Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.

Happiness is really rooted in simplicity. The tendency to excessiveness in thought and action diminishes happiness.

Simplicity is always the secret, to a profound truth, to doing things, to writing, to painting. Life is profound in its simplicity

History as well as life itself is complicated -- neither life nor history is an enterprise for those who seek simplicity and consistency.

Living simply makes loving simple.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

The faultless formulas of television-the ones that last-are simple.

We regularly review our policy and update as necessary. In this case, we were pleased to learn that the EU (European) Commission had embraced the concept of 'layered notices' for privacy policies, emphasizing simplicity and clarity. We agree with that and modified our policies in a way that we hope is both clear and easy to understand for our users.

We ought to act with God in the greatest simplicity, speak to Him frankly and plainly, and implore His assistance in our affairs.

Raju Hirani films are filled with simplicity and goodness. I really love such films.

Sometimes you have to gag on fancy before you can appreciate plain ...

It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.

Simplicity is the most difficult of all concepts.

Remember that in giving any reason at all for refusing, you lay some foundation for a future request.

The man of fixed ingrained principles who has mapped out a straight course, and has the courage and self-control to adhere to it, does not find life complex. Complexities are all of our own making.

The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with.

Simplicity is cosmic, because it places our life on the same scale as all life, of innocent Nature herself, who is all-powerful.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

Like all Holmes' reasoning, the thing seemed simplicity itself when it was once explained. Dr. Watson, speaking of Sherlock Holmes.

I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort

All the world began with a yes. One molecule said yes to another molecule and life was born. But before prehistory there was the prehistory of the prehistory and there was the never and there was the yes. It was ever so. I don’t know why, but I do know that the universe never began. Make no mistake, I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.

What we call a mind is nothing but a heap or collection of different perceptions, united together by certain relations and supposed, though falsely, to be endowed with a perfect simplicity and identity.

And all the loveliest things there be come simply, so it seems to me.

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

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

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Well, that was interesting. I just thought I'd try to bask a little longer in the afterglow of yesterday's firestorm over my simple declaration that my wife and I had a hard time getting an Apple product up and running with anywhere near the simplicity that lore would have them possess. I managed to post more than 180 comments and there were another 80 or so that were either too obscene, too repetitive or just plain too many to put up before I turned off the 'comments' feature. I'll attempt to summarize and respond to the main threads of the, um, conversation.