Simplicity Quotations | Page 3

Simplicity just isn't a word synonymous with taxes.

Simplicity is the key. It is a marvelous thing to have crews that can fly on any airplane at any time, and to have a maintenance department work on a single aircraft type.

Simplicity is always favored by the public. When it's easy to understand, it's easier to get the public to vote yes.

Simplicity and repose are qualities that measure the true value of any work of art.

Mirapoint's multi-layered approach to spam, including its unique MailHurdle technology, was the ideal solution for Jayman's spam problem. By blocking spam at the edge of the network, then filtering for content, Mirapoint demonstrated high accuracy rates -- ensuring executives aren't spending hours each day searching for 'lost' email. The simplicity of an appliance with robust user controls and high accuracy rates made the switch to Mirapoint nearly invisible to end-users. All they noticed was better email.

Men tend to try to struggle to be more rational and reduce things to simplicity more and are more impatient with ambiguity than women are.

More customers are signing up with us and buying products online because we've made security and simplicity our top priorities.

I was struck by the simplicity of it.

I wish there was a better word for it, because I can't use it in any of my marketing, but it really is the essence of what we're doing. People want to come to meet one person, make all their decisions and do everything in one place. In 2006, people want simplicity and convenience.

I am so excited to be part of the team helping rights owners sell directly to music fans and enabling the legitimate sharing of the music they love with friends and family. It takes digital music distribution to the next level of choice, simplicity and flexibility.

GNOME is aiming for simplicity and consistency; we're the first open source desktop project to have a documented set of human interface guidelines.

If we play anything like we know we are capable of, we will win. That is the simplicity of it sometimes.

He (understood) from a child the simplicity of complex music and the complexity of simple music. He has something that I don't have, which is perfect pitch. He knows what key everything is by hearing it once.

We take the view it is good to have simplicity and clarity. It is no good having benchmarks that no-one can relate to.

Originality implies a return to the origins, original is returning to the simplicity of the first solutions.

Originality consists of returning to the origin. Thus, originality means returning, through one's resources, to the simplicity of the early solutions.

HP is adding simplicity for HP-UX customers that also buy their management software. They can overlay this ID management tool for the operating system and reduce wasted resources on server management.

Hundreds of thousands of satisfied TaxBrain.com electronic filers point to cost, convenience and simplicity as the most important factors in their decision to switch - and their commitment to never go back.

People are after simplicity now. They learned over the past five years or so that investing isn't as easy as they thought.

Really, what people want is more simplicity in their life. They want a sanctuary.

Our music is very simple and doesn't go over people's heads, ... Simplicity has been the recipe for us so far.

Such simplicity cannot be taught. But it can be denied and lost.

That brings a measure of simplicity to pricing and reliability assuring shoppers that what they can buy today will never be offered at a lower price.

Textbook science is beautiful! Textbook science is comprehensible, unlike mere fascinating words that can never be truly beautiful. Elementary science textbooks describe simple theories, and simplicity is the core of scientific beauty. Fascinating words have no power, nor yet any meaning, without the math.

LINQ is an example of breakthrough simplicity that required major effort by Microsoft, ... What developers are doing now and what they propose to do with LINQ is a radical change.

I think he's the most intelligent man I've ever met. Honesty, simplicity and truth are the secret to his comedy.

Physics is really nothing more than a search for ultimate simplicity, but so far all we have is a kind of elegant messiness.

Even the world, that despises simplicity, does not profess to approve of duplicity.

To make HP a great company once again, we need more than competitive costs and operational efficiency. We're in the process of assessing and refining our growth strategy, and the same concepts that were behind our operational changes will be at work here: simplicity, focus, alignment, and execution.

Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

In normal life, 'simplicity' is synonymous with 'easy to do,' but when a chef uses the word, it means 'takes a lifetime to learn.'

The ANGEL approach has produced an LMS that's different. We've gained distinction for creating an appealing balance of simplicity and power. We've obsessed about how to improve both of these -- making the product even easier to use and yet more powerful. And we're especially pleased to have blended in features like our new Learning Object Repository and LIVE synchronous tools as core features to extend value unique in the industry.

I would like to tell that I was really loved, with the simplicity, ... What is more simple than to tell to a little boy, 'This is not the truth, it is a game?'

Microsoft's best marketing for Vista will come from simplicity -- making the value of Vista as easy to understand as possible, so people can look and say Vista is a lot better than the version they have now, Are there too many of them to communicate the value of Vista?

We're unveiling a range of innovations that deliver an outstanding level of power and simplicity to search.

The 3Ss of Winning in business are speed, simplicity, and self-confidence.

We have attached a great deal of importance to relieving the IT and management burden that content security can place on those responsible. We have been able to break new ground in this key area and it's important that businesses understand that security and simplicity are no longer mutually exclusive -- they can have the high-quality content security they require, but it doesn't have to come at the expense of the valuable time of highly trained staff.

Any intelligent fool can invent further complications, but it takes a genius to retain, or recapture, simplicity.

The body should be bedecked naturally and without affectation, with simplicity, with neglect rather than nicety, not with costly and dazzling apparel, but with ordinary clothes, so that nothing be lacking to honesty and necessity, yet nothing be added to increase its beauty.

If we expect to inherit the blessings of our Fathers, we should return a little more to their primitive Simplicity of Manners.

A person who makes full use of and exploits his talents, potentialities, and capacities. Such a person seems to be fulfilling himself and doing the best he is capable of doing. The self-actualized person must find in his life those qualities that make his living rich and rewarding. He must find meaningfulness, self-sufficiency, effortlessness, playfulness, richness, simplicity, completion, necessity, perfection, individuality, beauty, and truth.

Wherever there's capitalism there's this inclination toward simplicity. There's also a human need to process complicated things by turning them into something else.

Anything that might come under arts should not be subject to the whims of the idiotic market because the market's stupid, and it gravitates toward simplicity - towards essentializing things so they can be sold.

There is eternal simplicity to a solution once it has been discovered!

The motif must always be set down in a simple way, easily grasped and understood by the beholder. By the elimination of superfluous detail, the spectator should be led along the road that the artist indicates to him, and from the first be made to notice what the artist has felt.

Seek simplicity but distrust it.

The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it.

Seek simplicity, then distrust.

...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.

Seek simplicity, and distrust it.

Rich in saving common-sense, And, as the greatest only are, In his simplicity sublime.

Simplicity is the greatest adornment of art.

Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase.

The size of the lie is a definite factor in causing it to be believed, for the vast masses of the nation are in the depths of their hearts more easily deceived than they are consciously and intentionally bad. The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one, for they themselves often tell little lies but would be ashamed to tell a big one.

The primitive simplicity of their minds renders them a more easy prey to a big lie than a small one.

Hours and hours passed, with nothing to do but keep the compass on its course and the plane on a level keel. This sounds easy enough, but its very simplicity becomes a danger when your head keeps nodding with weariness and utter boredom and your eyes everlastingly try to shut out the confusing rows of figures in front of you, which will insist on getting jumbled together.

Silence and simplicity obtrude on no one, but are yet two unequaled attractions in woman.

Well, that was interesting. I just thought I'd try to bask a little longer in the afterglow of yesterday's firestorm over my simple declaration that my wife and I had a hard time getting an Apple product up and running with anywhere near the simplicity that lore would have them possess. I managed to post more than 180 comments and there were another 80 or so that were either too obscene, too repetitive or just plain too many to put up before I turned off the 'comments' feature. I'll attempt to summarize and respond to the main threads of the, um, conversation.

This paper of yours is so lightly written that you must have sweated terribly.

True simplicity is elegant.

Our mantra was simplicity.

Never again will I make the simple into the complex. Something of true value does not become more valuable because it becomes complicated. Experience and conditions come and go; complications arise and fall away, but the simple action of God is eternal in the universe.

In art, one does not aim for simplicity; one achieves it unintentionally as one gets closer to the real meaning of things.

Simplicity is complexity resolved

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.

The beginner should approach style warily, realizing that it is himself he is approaching, no other; and he should begin by turning resolutely away from all devices that are popularly believed to indicate style - all mannerisms, tricks, adornments. The approach to style is by way of plainness, simplicity, orderliness, sincerity.

People who advocate simplicity have money in the bank; the money came first, not the simplicity.

Simplicity is a most complex form

Nothing is more important than life. Nothing. You realise the simplicity of that point only when you confront death everyday.

When you lose your simplicity, you lose your drama.

For it is characteristic of true simplicity that there may radiate from its utmost directness a good many glinting things.

We know how it ends practically before it starts. That's why stories appeal to us. They give us the clarity and simplicity our real lives lack.

Art should take what is complex and render it simply. It takes a lot of skill, human understanding, stamina, courage, energy, and heart to do that.

Simplicity makes me happy.

A wall is the safeguard of simplicity.

Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

For the most part, we, who could choose simplicity, choose complication.

Simplicity is ultimately a matter of focus.

The world is fairly studded and strewn with pennies cast broadside by a generous hand. But- and this is the point- who gets excited by a mere penny? But if you cultivate a healthy poverty and simplicity, so that finding a penny will literally make your day, then, since the world is in fact planted in pennies, you have with your poverty bought a lifetime of days.

I always go for simplicity.

Most human things are full of conflict and ambivalence, not ease and simplicity. The world has grown increasingly fundamentalist, and the parameters of discussion have become narrowed. People, when they're fearful, are vulnerable to certainty in rhetoric.

Always be skeptical about simplicity.

The life of simplicity is simple, but it opens to us a book in which we never get beyond the first syllable.

We all have hometown appetites. Every other person is a bundle of longing for the simplicities of good taste once enjoyed on the farm or in the hometown left behind.

Avoid fragmentation: Find your focus and seek simplicity. Purposeful living calls for elegant efficiency and economy of effort-expanding the minimum time and energy necessary to achieve desired goals.

As poet-philosopher Rabindranath Tagore reminds us, "We cannot cross the sea merely by staring at the water." Simplicity has power. And living on purpose comes to this: Just do it. How much simpler can we get?

It is those who have enough but not too much who are the happiest.

I love the American musical for the simplicity of emotion that gets expressed.

There are thousands upon thousands of students who have practiced meditation and obtained its fruits. Do not doubt its possibilities because of the simplicity of the method. If you can not find the truth right where you are, where else do you expect to find it?

Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.

To simplify complications is the first essential of success.

The reason the Palm is so successful is the simplicity of using them. They kind of just work.

We had to have a baseline to operate from, and that was the Filer game, but our biggest growth spurts should come against Hillcrest and Minico. Hillcrest is traditionally a real physical team that takes pride in simplicity and emphasizes execution.

Look carefully through all the claims pressing upon you in your complicated life, and decide once and for all what it is that is the one really important and overmastering duty in it, and should be the one dominating aim. Then remember that if you succeed in that, the others, so multifarious, are really no more than the fringe of the garment, and that you need not spend so much anxiety over them, provided that the one most important is faithfully attended to.

Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.

Everybody desires simplicity but how viable is it to take something complex and force it into being something simple?

A true Christian, who is born anew of the Spirit of Christ, is in the simplicity of Christ, and hath no strife or contention with any man about religion.

The simplicity of the interaction is one of the most critical things.

The simplicity of language, the sparseness of the word on the page, the way a few words stretch my mind across big spaces all this is here.

I value simplicity over everything. I always look for simplicity. Simplicity is important in the quest for developer productivity.