#simplicity

There is no single development, in either technology or management technique, which by itself promises even one order-of-magnitude improvement within a decade in productivity, in reliability, in simplicity. ↗

— Frederick P. Brooks, Jr.

#development #either #even #improvement #itself

Grandeur and beauty are so very opposite, that you often diminish the one as you increase the other. Variety is most akin to the latter, simplicity to the former. ↗

— William Shenstone

#beauty #diminish #former #grandeur #increase

The absence of the heavy boot of Europe has preserved to these people the agile walk of the wild animal, while the general simplicity of their lives has given them many other points of physical perfection. ↗

— John Millington Synge

#agile #animal #boot #europe #general

The native American has been generally despised by his white conquerors for his poverty and simplicity. ↗

— Charles Eastman

#been #conquerors #despised #generally #his

A simple man will have only what he needs, and he will know the difference between what he needs and what he wants. We feel that whatever we want, we desperately need. But before we possess the world, to our wide surprise we see that the world has already possessed us. ↗

— Sri Chinmoy

#simplicity-in-life #inspirational

I have never seen or heard of such a fish. But I must kill him. I am glad we do not have to try to kill the stars.” Imagine if each day a man must try to kill the moon, he thought. The moon runs away. . . . Then he was sorry for the great fish that had nothing to eat and his determination to kill him never relaxed in his sorrow for him. . . . There is no one worthy of eating him from the manner of his behavior and his great dignity. I do not understand these things, he thought. But it is good that we do not have to try to kill the sun or the moon or the stars. It is enough to live on the sea and kill our true brothers. ↗

— Ernest Hemingway

#philosophy #simplicity #imagination

Modern civilisation is complicated and artificial. Simple folk live in a world of love and peace. Let no one hate another or harm another. ↗

— Sivananda Saraswati

#love #modernity #peace #simplicity #inspirational

I feel that the simplicity of life is just being yourself. ↗

— Bobby Brown

#being yourself #feel #i #i feel #just

Some of the greatest poetry is revealing to the reader the beauty in something that was so simple you had taken it for granted. ↗

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

#poetry #simplicity #wonder #beauty

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great art. They seem to be the purpose of God for his whole creation. ↗

— Richard Holloway

#art #attributes #clarity #creation #give