Quotes on Simplicity

When you doubt between words, use the plainest, the commonest, the most idiomatic. Eschew fine words as you would rouge; love simple ones as you would the native roses on your cheek.

And oft, though wisdom wake, suspicion sleeps At wisdom's gate, and to simplicity Resigns her charge, while goodness thinks no ill Where no ill seems.

And simple truth miscalled simplicity

The Lord called me by the way of simplicity and humility, and this way He hath shown me in truth for me and those who will believe and imitate me. And therefore I would that ye name not to me any rule, neither of St. Augustine, nor St. Benedict, nor of Bernard, nor any way or form of living, but that which was mercifully shown and given me by the Lord.

The day, water, sun, moon, night - I do not have to purchase these things with money.

Our life is frittered away by detail. An honest man has hardly need to count more than his ten fingers, or in extreme cases he may add his ten toes, and lump the rest. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!

Simplicity is the final achievement.

I recommend to you holy simplicity.

The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.

The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.

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

Simplicity is the essence of universality.

We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.

The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.

Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

Simplicity is the peak of civilization.