984 Quotes About Simplicity

Eloquence is vehement simplicity.

Art, it seems to me, should simplify.

Elegant as simplicity, and warm As ecstasy.

All the great things are simple.

Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.

It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect.

The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.

A model is done when nothing else can be taken out.

A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.