Simplicity Quotes

You tell me it is too early to be looking back,
but that is because you have forgotten
the perfect simplicity of being one
and the beautiful complexity introduced by two. - William Collins

You can see it in the products I've built over the years?they strive to be simple. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity. - Anders Hejlsberg

Writing is no trouble: you just jot down ideas as they occur to you. The jotting is simplicity itself - it is the occurring which is difficult. - Stephen Leacock

Wisdom crieth without; she uttereth her voice in the streets: / She crieth in the chief place of concourse, in the openings of the gates: in the city she uttereth her words, saying, / How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge? / Turn you at my reproof: behold, I will pour out my spirit unto you, I will make known my words unto you. - Bible

Wing Chun emphasizes ideas and not techniques, the main ideas [being] simplicity, efficiency and effectiveness. - John Chang

Why should we live with such hurry and waste of life? We are determined to be starved before we are hungry. - Henry David Thoreau

When there is freedom from mechanical conditioning, there is simplicity. The classical man is just a bundle of routine, ideas and tradition. If you follow the classical pattern, you are understanding the routine, the tradition, the shadow - you are not understanding yourself. - Bruce Lee

When the subject is strong, simplicity is the only way to treat it. - Jacob Lawrence

When I was growing up, Dr. Seuss was really my favorite. There was something about the lyrical nature and the simplicity of his work that really hit me. - Tim Burton

When I was a cook and 24 years old... I read the kinds of books that were the inspiration to understanding the value of simplicity in cooking. - Mario Batali