“Since when has the world of computer software design been about what people want? This is a simple question of evolution. The day is quickly coming when every knee will bow down to a silicon fist, and you will all beg your binary gods for mercy.” PeopleWorldWantHandsSimpleDesignEvolutionComputerMercyKneesSoftwareBowsFistsSiliconSoftware DesignBinaryComputer Software Author:Bill Gates
“There are people who design buildings that are not technically and financially good, and there are those who do. Two categories - simple.” PeopleTwoSimpleDesignBuildingCategories Author:Frank Gehry
“The strong appearance of design [in nature] allows a disarmingly simple argument: if it looks, walks and quacks like a duck, then, absent compelling evidence to the contrary, we have warrant to conclude it's a duck. Design should not be overlooked simply because it's so obvious.” IfsShouldLooksStrongSimpleWalksDesignEvidenceArgumentObviousAppearanceContraryDucksCompellingAbsentOverlookedWarrantsQuacksDesign In Nature Author:Michael Behe
“C is not clean – the language has many gotchas and traps, and although its semantics are simple in some sense, it is not any cleaner than the assembly-language design it is based on.” LanguageSimpleDesignCleanTrapsAssemblyCleanersSemanticsAssembly Language Author:Erik Naggum
“...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.” MindLongHardOpportunityIndividualSimpleGreaterAchieveExampleDesignHard WorkDisciplineEasierDegreesImpactSimplicityFasterRangeEfficientExecutionElegantAppreciatedEleganceIngenuityFeatsSimplificationSimplicity And Elegance Author:Edsger Dijkstra
“I think my style revolves around the philosophy that less is more, that simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. That goes for my taste in design and in clothes, and even affects the way I approach music. I'm all about keeping things simple, and minimal, but being able to convey something powerful through that approach.” ThinkingWayPhilosophyAbleSimplePowerfulStyleDesignTasteApproachClothesUltimateSimplicitySophisticationLess Is More Author:G-Eazy
“I love Prada shirts because they're so decorative and figure-hugging, but I also like Reiss shirts because they're clean, simple and look as if they've come off the peg from a design house.” IfsLooksHouseSimpleFiguresDesignCleanShirtsHugPegPrada Author:Jamie Bamber
“If there's a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it's probably about starting with the people.” PeopleIfsTogetherEasySimplePrinciplesDesignStarting Author:Bill Moggridge
“Uniqlo as a company has always developed new fabrics and is always trying to be innovative. The design is simple, so the fabric is important.” TryingImportantSimpleCompanyDesignFabricInnovativeAlways Trying Author:Nicola Formichetti
“Events unfold so unpredictably, so unfairly, human happiness does not seem to be included in the design of creation. It is only we, with our capacity to love that give meaning to the indifferent universe. And yet, most human beings seem to have the ability to keep trying and even try to find joy from simple things, like their family, their work, and from the hope that future generations might understand more.” GivingTryingHumansDoeSeemsMightJoyUniverseHuman BeingsSimpleAbilityGenerationsEventsDesignCreationCapacityIndifferentFuture GenerationKeep TryingSimple ThingsHuman HappinessCapacity To LoveMisdemeanorsCrimes And Misdemeanors Author:Woody Allen
“The tall modern office building is the machine pure and simple...the engine, the motor and the battleship the works of the century.” SimpleModernCenturyDesignBuildingPureOfficeMachinesTallEnginesMotorOffice Buildings Author:Frank Lloyd Wright
“There is no "era" of simple, focused, concept-driven identity design. There is only design that grows out of understanding audiences for specific problems, and that evolves from an idea. This is an approach that does not depend on any specific time period or its technology.” DoeIdeasProblemGrowsUnderstandingSimpleTechnologyAudienceDesignIdentityDependsPeriodsApproachConceptsFocusedDrivenErasEvolveTime Periods Author:Ivan Chermayeff
“The K.I.S.S. (Keep It Simple, Stupid) principle was pounded into my head in school and I still follow it today in most of my designs. I know that my most successful efforts are the simplest. I always find myself trying to subtract detail from design concepts in an attempt to distill the idea down to the most basic communication tool.” KnowsTryingStillsIdeasTodaySchoolSimpleEffortPrinciplesSuccessfulStupidDesignCommunicationConceptsToolsDetailsSimplestKeep It Simple Author:Jeff Fisher
“The designer [...] has a passion for doing something that fits somebody's needs, but that is not just a simple fix. The designer has a dream that goes beyond what exists, rather than fixing what exists. [...] The designer wants to create a solution that fits in a deeper situational or social sense.” WantNeedsDreamPassionSocialSimpleDesignFitSolutionsDeeperDesignerFixing Author:David E. Kelley
“I think hand-drawn animation can be something really special. If the character design is quite simple it has the ability to allow people to easily relate to the characters in a special manner.” PeopleIfsThinkingCharacterHandsSimpleAbilitySpecialDesignRelateAnimationCharacter Design Author:Tomm Moore
“If only I had known a year ago what I'd be facing now. Until last year I lived with the innocent arrogance that my life was a simple product of effort, will, and design. But now I am a house of cards, held precariously by the fragile conspiracy of wind, weight, and angle. Perhaps it is best we cannot see into our futures.” IfsYearsLastsHouseSimpleEffortKnownDesignWindProductsYears AgoWeightInnocentCardsArroganceOur FutureFragileConspiracyLast YearAngleHouse Of Cards Author:Martha Manning
“The mistake many people make when they go to a bespoke tailor is they often think they need to do something special - either an interesting design feature, or a particularly interesting or unique-looking cloth. I say do the opposite. Stick to something really simple, because this will be a suit that you will really want to wear, so start with something very straightforward and you will get an enormous amount of joy wearing it.” PeopleThinkingWantNeedsJoySimpleInterestingMistakeSpecialDesignAmountUniqueOppositesSticksEnormousSuitsFeaturesStraightforwardSomething SpecialTailors Author:Patrick Grant
“If protesting against having a nuclear bomb implanted in my brain is anti-Hindu and anti-national, then I secede. I hereby declare myself an independent, mobile republic. I am a citizen of the earth. I own no territory. I have no flag. My policies are simple. I'm willing to sign any nuclear non-proliferation treaty or nuclear test ban treaty that's going. Immigrants are welcome. You can help me design our flag.” IfsHelpingEarthSimpleBrainPolicyDesignWillingCitizensTestsIndependentNuclearWelcomeBombsHelp MeImmigrantsRepublicTerritoryFlagsMobileBansTreatiesProliferationNuclear BombProliferation Treaty Author:Arundhati Roy
“When you buy things that are expensive, like a sofa or something that really feels like an investment, you need to keep it as plain as possible, as simple as possible. Make sure that it's a clean design that will work with whatever style you want it to.” WantNeedsFeelsSimpleStyleDesignCleanInvestmentExpensiveSofas Author:Nate Berkus
“Simple and intuitive design is what inspires and drives me.” SimpleDesignInspireIntuitive Author:Dave Morin
“There is no one "root of all evil" in software development. Design is hard in many ways. People tend to underestimate the intellectual and practical difficulties involved in building a significant system involving software. It is not and will not be reduced to a simple mechanical "assembly line" process. Creativity, engineering principles, and evolutionary change are needed to create a satisfactory large system.” PeopleWayHardEvilProcessLinesSimplePrinciplesCreativityDesignBuildingDevelopmentNeededInvolvedIntellectualRootsDifficultySignificantPracticalsSoftwareEngineeringUnderestimateAssemblyInvolvingSoftware DevelopmentAssembly Line Author:Bjarne Stroustrup
“For centuries the most powerful argument for God's existence from the physical world was the so-called argument from design: Living things are so beautiful and elegant and so apparently purposeful, they could only have been made by an intelligent designer. But [Charles] Darwin provided a simpler explanation. His way is a gradual, incremental improvement starting from very simple beginnings and working up step by tiny incremental step to more complexity, more elegance, more adaptive perfection.” WorldWayHas BeensMadeBeautifulSimplePowerfulExistenceStepsCenturyDesignArgumentPerfectionIntelligentStartingImprovementTinyExplanationDesignerComplexityMost PowerfulElegantEleganceLiving ThingsIntelligent DesignAdaptive Author:Richard Dawkins
“For years I thought I was just a writer, but when I sat down to design and started playing around with it, I realized that, really, it's pretty easy. Obviously it's more than just a set of rules, but the basics of design are actually pretty simple and quite mathematical. The link between data and design works at quite a fundamental level.” EasySimpleDesignI RealizedMathematicalSat Author:David Mccandless
“I don't use work from the past as a literal guide; rather, those artifacts reinforce a view that simple images can communicate with wide audiences over time. Icon design is like solving a puzzle, trying to marry an image and idea that, ideally, will be easy for people to understand and remember.” PeopleTryingPastRememberEasySimpleAudienceDesignCommunicatePuzzles Author:Susan Kare
“The personal computer was a disruptive innovation relative to the mainframe because it enabled even a poor fool like me to have a computer and use it, and it was enabled by the development of the micro processor. The micro processor made it so simple to design and build a computer that IB could throw in together in a garage. And so, you have that simplifying technology as a part of every disruptive innovation. It then becomes an innovation when the technology is embedded in a different business model that can take the simplified solution to the market in a cost-effective way.” DifferentTogetherSimplePoorTechnologyDesignFoolComputerSolutionsInnovationRelativeGarageEmbedded Author:Clayton Christensen
“I've been working on a graphic about carbon emissions. It's an incredibly simple graphic - a bunch of blocks and a table below it - but it's taken me three weeks to design. For some reason it just wasn't working. Then finally I realized there was a number present, which I was rendering in each version, that wasn't necessary for the understanding of the piece. This figure was getting in the way and distracting from the main flow of the narrative. As soon as I pulled that graphic out of the design, it sprang into focus. Suddenly it worked.” ReasonUnderstandingSimpleTakenFocusWeekDesignI RealizedBlockGraphic Author:David Mccandless
“Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple, awesomely simple, that's creativity.” InspirationalSimpleInspiringMusicCreativityLearningDesignJazzSimplicityComplicatedProgrammingJazz MusicSimple LifeCommonplaceSimplifyComputer ProgrammingProgramming LanguagesSimple LivingComplicationComputer LanguageCreative ThinkingJazz MusicianArt And CreativityInspire CreativityPlain And SimpleLiving A Simple LifeSimplicity In DesignDesign InspirationLife Is SimplePlain LanguageSimple SolutionsComplicated LifeLife Is ComplicatedSmooth Jazz Author:Charles Mingus
“Have nothing in your house that you do not know to be useful, or believe to be beautiful.” KnowsLifeBelieveHumorBeautifulHappinessHouseSimpleBeautyDesignSimplicityTinyOrganizeSimple LifeSimplifySimple ThingsMinimalismClutterInterior DesignSimple LivingTidyMinimalistLess Is MoreUseful ThingsBig HousesLiving A Simple LifeSimplicity In DesignSimple Things In LifeLife Is SimpleTiny ThingsSimplifying LifeArts And CraftsSpring CleaningTiny HousesBeautiful DesignSmall SimpleOrganizing ThingsBest HouseSimple And Beautiful Author:William Morris
“Design is the method of putting form and content together. Design, just as art, has multiple definitions; there is no single definition. Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.” ArtTogetherFormDeathSimpleDesignMethodDefinitionsComplicatedDesignerMultipleAestheticsGood DesignGraphic DesignerInspirational Graphic DesignDesign And ArtDesign InspirationArt DesignGraphic Design InspirationBeautiful Design Author:Paul Rand
“Design can be art. Design can be aesthetics. Design is so simple, that's why it is so complicated.” ArtSimpleDesignComplicatedDesignerAestheticAestheticsGraphic DesignGood DesignGraphic ArtistGraphic DesignerInspirational DesignInspirational Graphic DesignGreat DesignDesign And ArtDesign InspirationProduct DesignBest DesignArt DesignCreativity And DesignGraphic Design InspirationFunny Graphic DesignInspiring DesignCreative DesignGraphic ArtBeautiful Design Author:Paul Rand