Simplicity Quotes

• The story of technology seems to go up and then retract into simplicity again.

  

  Ze Frank
  • Up
  • Technology
  • Go

• Queen Victoria was a woman of peerless common sense; her common sense, which is a rare gift at any time, amounted to genius. She had been brought up by her mother with the utmost simplicity, and she retained it to the end, and conducted her public and private life alike by that infallible guide.

  

  E. F. Benson
  • Life
  • Up
  • Time

• The expression of vanity and self-love becomes less offensive, when it retains something of simplicity and frankness.

  

  Vanity
  • Simplicity

• Folk melodies are the embodiment of an artistic perfection of the highest order; in fact, they are models of the way in which a musical idea can be expressed with utmost perfection in terms of brevity of form and simplicity of means.

  

  Bela Bartok
  • Perfection
  • Models
  • Melodies

• Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

  

  E. T. Bell
  • Art
  • Past
  • Feeling

• Dr. Rosenberg has brought the simplicity of successful communication into the foreground. No matter what issue you're facing, his strategies for communicating with others will set you up to win every time.

  

  Anthony Robbins
  • Winning
  • Successful
  • Communication

• What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

  

  Dan Deacon
  • People
  • Music
  • Simple

• I love dessert. All kinds. But there's something about ice cream that makes me happy. I am drawn to its simplicity. I am perplexed by the endless supply of constantly growing flavor options. And I am always in the mood for sprinkles and a sugar cone.

  

  Rachel Nichols
  • Love
  • Happy
  • Growing

• I like the simplicity of a halter-top or plunging neckline, but I'll rough it up by wearing studded shoes and my leather jacket.

  

  Halston Sage
  • Up
  • Shoes
  • Leather

• When you're dressing on a budget, simplicity is key.

  

  Ne-Yo
  • Simplicity

• The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

  

  Douglas Horton
  • Art
  • Simplicity

• A recurring ideal, I find, is that of simplicity. At times there comes the desire to write with great precision and clarity, words so simple and moving that they bring tears to the eyes.

  

  R. S. Thomas
  • Great
  • Words
  • Desire

• UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity.

  

  Dennis Ritchie
  • Simple
  • Simplicity

• And of course, pop music is all about memorability and simplicity and positive messages and a little dash of joy.

  

  Feist
  • Music
  • Joy
  • Positive

• My philosophy? Simplicity plus variety.

  

  Hank Stram
  • Philosophy
  • Simplicity
  • Plus

• Susie Waggoner in 'Miami Blues' is just such a sweetheart, such an innocent. When I watch that, I really feel like I'm watching Susie Waggoner. I don't really see myself. And there's a simplicity to it that I really like.

  

  Jennifer Jason Leigh
  • Innocent
  • Simplicity

• Cherish the Minnesota State Fair. Wherever you find beauty and simplicity and truth, know that there is a committee somewhere planning to improve it -- don't let them do it.

  

  Garrison Keillor
  • Truth
  • Planning
  • Simplicity

• I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

  

  Donald Norman
  • Life
  • Believe
  • Simplicity

• ... anything so delightful as Washington I have never seen elsewhere. There were a mingled simplicity and grandeur, a mingled state and quiet intimacy, a brilliancy of conversation--the proud prominence of intellect over material prosperity which does not exist in any other city of the Union.

  

  M. E. W. Sherwood
  • City
  • Proud
  • Cities

• Whenever two hypotheses cover the facts, use the simpler of the two.

  

  William of Occam
  • Facts
  • Simplicity
  • Hypothesis

• Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.

  

  Marina Warner
  • Heart
  • Simple
  • Understanding

• Bold simplicity is the keynote to good design.

  

  Sailor Jerry
  • Good
  • Design
  • Bold

• The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, 'Seek simplicity and distrust it.'

  

  Alfred North Whitehead
  • Life
  • Thinking
  • Science

• I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

  

  Jil Sander
  • Simplicity

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