A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.
A taste for simplicity cannot endure for long.
All the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
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.
Divide each difficulty into as many parts as is feasible and necessary to resolve it.
Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.
Every contrivance of man, every tool, every instrument, every utensil, every article designed for use, of each and every kind, evolved from a very simple beginnings.
Everything is simpler than you think and yet more complex than you imagine.
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
God always takes the simplest way.
I adore simple pleasures. They are the last refuge of the complex.
I don't understand complicated problems. I only understand simple ones.
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 have a simple life. I mean, you just give me a drum roll, they announce my name, and I come out and sing. In my job I have a contract that says I'm a singer. So I sing.
I have always observed that to succeed in the world a person must seem simple, yet wise.
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.
In our systems work through simplicity, consistency, and repetition.
Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.