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A simple life is not seeing how little we can get by with—that’s poverty—but how efficiently we can put first things first. . . . When you’re clear about your purpose and your priorities, you can painlessly discard whatever does not support these, whether it’s clutter in your cabinets or commitments on your calendar. (148)


Victoria Moran


#commitments #poverty #priorities #prioritize #purpose

A slight concussion of the brain simplifies matters so beautifully. ("Three O'Clock")


Cornell Woolrich


#concussion #simplicity #beauty

Penny knew also she loved the country for its beauty. Cities could be magnificent, astounding, fantastic, but they were not consistently beautiful and simple. Penny liked uncomplicated beauty.


Dorothy Deming


#city #country #life #simplicity #beauty

The Amish are islands of sanity in a whirlpool of change.


Nancy Sleeth


#change #sanity #simplicity #stability #tradition

We see a lot of feature-driven product design in which the cost of features is not properly accounted. Features can have a negative value to customers because they make the products more difficult to understand and use. We are finding that people like products that just work. It turns out that designs that just work are much harder to produce that designs that assemble long lists of features.


Douglas Crockford


#philosophy #programming #simplicity #software-development #design

Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.


Edsger Wybe DIJKSTRA


#elegance #simple #simplicity #virtue #education

Through the ingenuousness of her age beamed an ardent mind, a mind not of the women but of the poet; she did not please, she intoxicated.


Alexandre Dumas


#simplicity #age

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


Henry David Thoreau


#life

None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.


Henry David Thoreau


#life

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


Bill Buford


#easy #learning #lifetime #simplicity #life






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