Simplicity Quotes

Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.

I've discovered that I value simplicity above all in dressing. I don't like anything I wear to be too complicated or fussy.

Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

I add, that those who are bent on restoring the whole church ought to be well instructed in the word, and to abstain from doing anything under the pretext of simplicity.

Organic architecture seeks superior sense of use and a finer sense of comfort, expressed in organic simplicity.

The art of art, the glory of expression and the sunshine of the light of letters, is simplicity.

Simplicity is the most difficult thing to secure in this world; it is the last limit of experience and the last effort of genius.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

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.

The spirit's foe in man has not been simplicity, but sophistication.

Simplicity is the key.

The genius of the French language, descended from its single Latin stock, has triumphed most in the contrary direction - in simplicity, in unity, in clarity, and in restraint.

I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it.

I love the simplicity, the ingredients, the culture, the history and the seasonality of Italian cuisine. In Italy people do not travel. They cook the way grandma did, using fresh ingredients and what is available in season.

The line that describes the beautiful is elliptical. It has simplicity and constant change. It cannot be described by a compass, and it changes direction at every one of its points.

What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.

Guided only by their feeling for symmetry, simplicity, and generality, and an indefinable sense of the fitness of things, creative mathematicians now, as in the past, are inspired by the art of mathematics rather than by any prospect of ultimate usefulness.

I have just three things to teach: simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures.

A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.

I have often said that I wish I had invented blue jeans: the most spectacular, the most practical, the most relaxed and nonchalant. They have expression, modesty, sex appeal, simplicity - all I hope for in my clothes.

I don't really like politics that much. And I like the order and simplicity of sports. They have an ending. You can argue with your friends about it, but in the end you still like sports. I almost love the fantasy world of sports more than the real world.

Simplicity makes me happy.

Simplicity is a state of mind.

I am convinced that there can be luxury in simplicity.

Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude.

What's completely insane to me is that people would consider music that's simple to be dumbed-down. Couldn't simplicity be a deliberate, smart choice?

For simplicity one can think of the + class as having one extra base at some point or other in the genetic message and the - class as having one too few.

As beautiful as simplicity is, it can become a tradition that stands in the way of exploration.

The great seal of truth is simplicity.