Simple - Simplify Quotes

Creativity is more than just being different. Anybody can play weird; that’s easy. What’s hard is to be simple as Bach. Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple – that’s creativity.

Simplistic, adj. Predicated on the belief, or apparent belief, that good and evil differ from each other in some fashion.

It was beautiful and simple, as truly great swindles are.

Nothing is ever as simple as it seems

It does not matter whether one paints a picture, writes a poem, or carves a statue, simplicity is the mark of a master-hand.

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.

I don’t know but I think it’s very dangerous when you start taking up absolutist positions and simplistic positions.

How happy is the little stone That rambles in the road alone, And doesn’t care about careers, And exigencies never fears; Whose coat of elemental brown A passing universe put on; And independent as the sun, Associates or glows alone, Fulfilling absolute decree In casual simplicity.

The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

Then anyone who leaves behind him a written manual, and likewise anyone who receives it, in the belief that such writing will be clear and certain, must be exceedingly simple-minded.