Simplicity Quotes

"Truth that is naked is the most beautiful."

Arthur Schopenhauer

"There is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth."

Charles Dickens

"Always tell the truth – it's the easiest thing to remember."

David Mamet

"For every complex problem there is an answer that is clear, simple, and wrong."

H. L. Mencken

"Falsehood has an infinity of combinations, but truth has only one mode of being."

Jean-Jacques Rousseau

"Love, and you shall be loved."

"One is loved because one is loved. No reason is needed for loving."

Paulo Coelho

"We were together. I forget the rest."

"Love one another and you will be happy. It's as simple and as difficult as that."

Michael Leunig

"To attain knowledge, add things every day. To attain wisdom, remove things every day."

"Simplicity, patience, compassion. These three are your greatest treasures."

"If you want to be happy, be."

Kozma Prutkov

"Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify."

"The wise should be like a winnowing basket: keep what is essential and let the chaff blow away."

Kabir

"Give me only so much that my family is cared for; that I do not go hungry, and no guest at my door leaves hungry."

Kabir

"Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability."

Edsger W. Dijkstra

"Code is like humor. When you have to explain it, it's bad."

Cory House

"Debugging is twice as hard as writing the code in the first place. Therefore, if you write the code as cleverly as possible, you are, by definition, not smart enough to debug it."

Brian Kernighan

"Simple things should be simple, complex things should be possible."

Alan Kay

"Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity."

Charles Mingus

"The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple."

Grady Booch

"The best teacher is not the one who knows most but the one who is most capable of reducing knowledge to that simple compound of the obvious and wonderful."

H. L. Mencken

"The most effective way to do it, is to do it."

Amelia Earhart

"Playing football is very simple, but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is."

Johan Cruyff

"The ball is round, the game lasts ninety minutes."

Sepp Herberger