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Quotes about simplicity
Nothing is particularly hard if you divide it into small jobs. (Alford )
A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works. (Alford )
The whole is simpler than the sum of its parts. (Alford )
The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply. (Alford )
Nothing is true, but that which is simple. (Alford )
There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world. (Alford )
Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good swordsmen and they are never in the long run really defeated. That is why no later books satisfy us like those which were read to us in childhood --for those promised a world of great simplicity of which we knew the rules, but the later books are complicated and contradictory with experience; they are formed out of our own disappointing memories. (Alford )
My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way. (Alford )
There are two ways of constructing a software design. One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies. And the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. (Alford )
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. (Alford )
Understanding reduces the greatest to simplicity, and lack of its causes the least to take on the magnitude. (Alford )
The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity. (Alford )
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. (Alford )
Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do. (Alford )
Simplicity is the intention, purity in the affection; simplicity turns to God, purity unites with and enjoys him. (Alford )
In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition. (Alford )
To me, the extraordinary aspect of martial arts lies in its simplicity. The easy way is also the right way, and martial arts is nothing at all special; the closer to the true way of martial arts, the less wastage of expression there is. (Alford )
The height of cultivation runs to simplicity. Halfway cultivation runs to ornamentation. (Alford )
The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it. (Alford )
Simplicity in character, in manners, in style; in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity. (Alford )
The wisest keeps something of the vision of a child. Though he may understand a thousand things that a child could not understand, he is always a beginner, close to the original meaning of life. (Alford )
Order and simplification are the first steps towards the mastery of a subject. (Alford )
I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise. (Alford )
Simplicity of life, even the barest, is not a misery, but the very foundation of refinement; a sanded floor and whitewashed walls and the green trees, and flowery meads, and living waters outside; or a grimy palace amid the same with a regiment of housemaids always working to smear the dirt together so that it may be unnoticed; which, think you, is the most refined, the most fit for a gentleman of those two dwellings? (Alford )
I paint from the top down. From the sky, then the mountains, then the hills, then the houses, then the cattle, and then the people. (Alford )
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