Simplicity Quotes
Albert Einstein heads a small list, followed by Steve Maraboli, François Fénelon and others with two entries each. The sourced lines include Edsger Dijkstra’s from 1975, that simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability, and Goldsmith’s from The Deserted Village (1770), about one native charm being dearer than all the gloss of art.
“I would have written a shorter letter, but I did not have the time” is credited to Mark Twain and marked misattributed. The notes give the French original, “Je n’ai fait celle-ci plus longue que parce que je n’ai pas eu le loisir de la faire plus courte,” which is Pascal’s, from the Provincial Letters. “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication” is credited to Leonardo da Vinci and disputed.
Simplicity and Dignity are so nearly related that they may be considered together.
That’s why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.
The image that is characterized by a not good piles like simplicity in the soul.
Engaging in complexity is a key to simplicity. Fear of it will haunt your inner recesses.
Simplicity is also being able to feel for half an hour a person getting on your nerves.
Simplicity is worth buying if we do not have to pay too great a loss of precision for it.
UNIX is very simple, it just needs a genius to understand its simplicity.