Simplicity And Elegance Quotes:

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

- Don Altman

source: Don Altman (2011). “One-minute Mindfulness: 50 Simple Ways to Find Peace, Clarity, and New Possibilities in a Stressed-out World”, p.18, New World Library

topic: Life, Simplicity, Alive, Simplicity And Elegance

Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Greatness, Perfection, Elegant Woman, Fashion And Style

...Simplifications have had a much greater long-range scientific impact than individual feats of ingenuity. The opportunity for simplification is very encouraging, because in all examples that come to mind the simple and elegant systems tend to be easier and faster to design and get right, more efficient in execution, and much more reliable than the more contrived contraptions that have to be debugged into some degree of acceptability....Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

- Edsger Dijkstra

topic: Hard Work, Opportunity, Simple, Software Design, Simplicity And Elegance

The art of simplicity is a puzzle of complexity.

- Douglas Horton

topic: Art, Simplicity, Favourite, Puzzled, Puzzling

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

- Fernando J. Corbato

topic: Simplicity, Design, Important, Simplicity And Elegance

There is no greatness where there is no simplicity, goodness and truth.

- Leo Tolstoy

topic: Inspirational, Inspiring, Truth, Goodness And Truth, Simplicity And Elegance

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

- Paulo Coelho

topic: Beautiful, Simplicity, Sober, Discarded, Superfluous

I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

- Giorgio Armani

topic: Fashion, Thinking, Ideas, Simplicity And Elegance

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

- Natalie Babbitt

source: Natalie Babbitt (2015). “Tuck Everlasting”, p.97, Macmillan

topic: Philosophy, Simple, Magnificent, Simplicity And Elegance

Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- E. F. Schumacher

topic: Inspirational, Motivational, Courage, Making A Living, Software Design

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

- Albert Einstein

topic: Inspirational, Funny, Truth, Gravitation, Lies Truth

To live content with small means; to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion; to be worthy, not respectable, and wealthy, not rich; to listen to stars and birds, babes and sages, with open heart; to study hard; to think quietly, act frankly, talk gently, await occasions, hurry never; in a word, to let the spiritual, unbidden and unconscious, grow up through the common - this is my symphony.

- William Ellery Channing

source: William Ellery Channing, “My Symphony”

topic: Inspirational, Life, Happiness, Simple Things, Refinement

Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Courage, Fashion, Thinking, Inspiring Fashion, Coquetry

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. The first method is far more difficult.

- Tony Hoare

source: "The Emperor's Old Clothes". Communications of the ACM 24 (2), (pp. 75-83), February 1981.

topic: Witty, Humorous, Simple, Software Design, Computer Science

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

- Coco Chanel

topic: Fashion, Taken, Luxury, Inspiring Fashion, Coquetry

Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

- Mark Hyman, M.D.

topic: Love, Appreciation, Lying, Past Relationship, Finer Things

It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction.

- Albert Einstein

source: "Small is Beautiful". The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5, (p. 22), August 1973.

topic: Courage, Moving, Simple, Software Design, Something Bigger Than Yourself

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.

- William P. Alford

source: "A Plea for the Queen's English? RU joking?" by Dan Cook, www.theguardian.com. December 9, 2010.

topic: Writing, Thinking, Simplicity, Simplicity And Elegance

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 Dijkstra

source: "On the nature of Computing Science" by Edsger Dijkstra, www.cs.utexas.edu. August 10, 1984.

topic: Hard Work, Appreciate, Simplicity, Simplicity And Elegance

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

- Michio Kaku

topic: Falling In Love, Simplicity, Details, Paper And Pencil, Simplicity And Elegance

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

- Francis Crick

source: "What Mad Pursuit". Book by Francis Crick, 1988.

topic: Simplicity, Tools, Use, Occam's Razor, Simplicity And Elegance