Quotes by Simplicity Self-consciousness of the manner is the expensive substitute for simplicity. George Eliot simplicityconsciousnessself The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication. George Santayana simple-lifesimplicitymen I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity. Gertrude Stein simplicityrealsimple Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity. Giorgio Armani elegancesimplicityacknowledge As an explanation of the world materialism has a sort of insane simplicity. It has the quality of a madman's arguments; we have at once the sense of it covering everything and the sense of it leaving everything out. Gilbert K. Chesterton simplicityleavinginsane Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine. Girolamo Savonarola simplicitygivingway My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit. Giorgio Armani simplicitytrackmen If you endeavor to embrace the Way through much learning, the Way will not be understood. If you observe the Way with simplicity of heart, great indeed is this Way. Gautama Buddha simplicitymeditationheart Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity. Gordon Willis elegancesimplicitypeople The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple. Grady Booch computersimplicitysimple The task of the software development team is to engineer the illusion of simplicity. Grady Booch simplicitytasksteam To be simple is the best thing in the world; to be modest is the next best thing. I am not sure about being quiet. Gilbert K. Chesterton simplicitysimpleworld To be simple is the best thing in the world. Gilbert K. Chesterton sweatsimplicitysimple I like being in a recording studio. I like watching a song go from the simplicity of the original music. Grace Slick recording-studiosimplicitysong Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived. Gregory Bateson simplicitysexfall The modern world... has no notion except that of simplifying something by destroying nearly everything. Gilbert K. Chesterton modernsimplicityworld The greatest truths are commonly the simplest. Guillaume-Chretien de Lamoignon de Malesherbes simplestsimplicitytruth For my part, I should be inclined to suggest that the chief object of education should be to restore simplicity. If you like to put it so, the chief object of education is not to learn things; nay, the chief object of education is to unlearn things. Gilbert K. Chesterton chiefssimplicityshould Men rush toward complexity; but yearn for simplicity. Gilbert K. Chesterton complexitysimplicitymen If you'd spent your life being called "Gyles Brandreth", you would crawl across broken glass to achieve the bliss, the simplicity, the purity, the joy of simply being called "Bob". Gyles Brandreth simplicityglassesbroken«1516171819202122232425»
