Quotes by Simplicity So, friends, every day do something that won't compute. Love the Lord. Love the world. Work for nothing. Take all that you have and be poor. Love someone who does not deserve it. Denounce the government and embrace the flag. Hope to live in that free republic for which it stands. Wendell Berry simplicitygovernmentdoe You're here for a reason and it's not to hoard a lot of physical stuff. Wayne Dyer ransomsimplicitystuff We do need a 'new economy,' but one that is founded on thrift and care, on saving and conserving, not on excess and waste. An economy based on waste is inherently and hopelessly violent, and war is its inevitable by-product. We need a peaceable economy. Wendell Berry simplicitynaturewar So friends, every day do something that won't compute. Wendell Berry simplicity If nature leads us to mathematical forms of great simplicity and beauty - by forms I am referring to coherent systems of hypothesis, axioms, etc. - to forms that no one has previously encountered, we cannot help thinking that they are "true," that they reveal a genuine feature of nature... You must have felt this too: The almost frightening simplicity and wholeness of relationships which nature suddenly spreads out before us and for which none of us was in the least prepared. Werner Heisenberg etcsimplicitythinking See it big, and keep it simple. Wilferd Peterson simplicitybigssimple And so from that, I've always been fascinated with the idea that complexity can come out of such simplicity. Will Wright complexitysimplicityideas A curious thing about the ontological problem is its simplicity. It can be put into three Anglo-Saxon monosyllables: 'What is there?' It can be answered, moreover, in a word--'Everything'--and everyone will accept this answer as true. Willard Van Orman Quine simplicitythreeanswers Art, it seems to me, should simplify. Willa Cather simplicityshouldart What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer. William Albert Allard simplicityimportantphotography Since all the riches of this world William Blake devilsimplicitykings Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy. William Cowper ecstasywarmsimplicity The simplicity and uniformity of rural occupations, and their incessant practice, preclude any anxieties and agitations of hope and fear, to which employments of a more precarious and casual nature are subject. William Falconer anxietysimplicitypractice When ideas come, I write them; when they don't come, I don't. William Faulkner simplicitywritingideas To make yourself understood you have to think plain and write plain. William Feather simplicitywritingthinking The greatest ideas are the simplest. William Golding simplicityinsightideas Simplicity, without variety, is wholly insipid. William Hogarth insipidvarietysimplicity Civilisation is never so charming as when it is an island in the middle of simplicity, or of a civilisation of an alien kind. William Hurrell Mallock simplicityaliensislands Any one may mouth out a passage with a theatrical cadence, or get upon stilts to tell his thoughts; but to write or speak with propriety and simplicity is a more difficult task. Thus it is easy to affect a pompous style, to use a word twice as big as the thing you want to express; it is not so easy to pitch upon the very word that exactly fits it. William Hazlitt simplicitystylewriting A hypothetical theory is necessary, as a preliminary step, to reduce the expression of the phenomena to simplicity and order before it is possible to make any progress in framing an abstractive theory. William John Macquorn Rankine simplicityexpressionorder«4546474849505152535455»
