Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
~ Alford ~
What is conceived well is expressed clearly.
~ Nicholas Boileau ~
To simplify complications is the first essential of success.
~ George Earle Buckle ~
The most complex things are the simplest.
~ Agni Celeste ~
Out of intense complexities intense simplicities emerge.
~ Winston Churchill ~
Simplicity is a pleasant thing in children, or at any age, but it is not necessarily admirable, nor is affectation altogether a thing of evil. To be normal, to be at home in the world, with a prospect of power, usefulness, or success, the person must have that imaginative insight into other minds that underlies tact and savoir-faire, morality and beneficence. This insight involves sophistication, some understanding and sharing of the clandestine impulses of human nature. A simplicity that is merely the lack of this insight indicates a sort of defect.
~ Charles Horton Cooley ~
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
~ James F. Cooper ~
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
~ Eugène Delacroix ~
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
~ Rene Descartes ~
I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
~ Richard Deupree ~
When the solution is simple, God is answering.
~ Albert Einstein ~
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
~ John Gall ~
The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts.
~ Willard Gibbs ~
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.
~ Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe ~
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
~ Ernest Hemingway ~
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies.
~ C.A.R. Hoare ~
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.
~ Hans Hofmann ~
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life.
~ John Macy ~
We struggle with the complexities and avoid the simplicities.
~ Norman Vincent Peale ~
Never do anything standing that you can do sitting, or anything sitting that you can do lying down.
~ Chinese Proverb ~
Simplicity is the peak of civilization.
~ Jessie Sampter ~
The trouble with so many of us is that we underestimate the power of simplicity. We have a tendency it seems to over complicate our lives and forget what's important and what's not. We tend to mistake movement for achievement. We tend to focus on activities instead of results. And as the pace of life continues to race along in the outside world, we forget that we have the power to control our lives regardless of what's going on outside.
~ Robert Stuberg ~
