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“Focus and simplicity...once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.”

Source: Motivating Thoughts of Steve Jobs

“Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.”

“Poverty is a strange and elusive thing. ... I condemn poverty and I advocate it; poverty is simple and complex at once; it is a social phenomenon and a personal matter. Poverty is an elusive thing, and a paradoxical one. We need always to be thinking and writing about it, for if we are not among its victims its reality fades from us. We must talk about poverty because people insulated by their own comfort lose sight of it.”

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Author:Dorothy Day

“Gross and subtle, pure and mixed, simple and complex - in the end that there is no place where God is not. In every atom, He alone is present. From the ant to the universe, He spreads. The Lord who cares equally for all, the compassionate one who is all knowledge, tenderness, skill, holiness and beauty - He stands on all sides everywhere.”

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Author:Vinoba Bhave

“That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.”

“For me, reggae music and its aesthetic are touchstones in both simple and complex ways. Reggae's capacity to be a folk music that is created in a wholly modern context of the recording studio (and sometimes that is the sole performance space) is riddled with the kinds of contradictory impulses that we have come to expect from the post-modern. I revel in this, for it gives me, shall I say, permission.”

“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.”

“Reduce the complexity of life by eliminating the needless wants of life, and the labors of life reduce themselves.”

Source: Circle of the Seasons: The Journal of a Naturalist's Year

“The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be, seek simplicity and distrust it.”

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Book:The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

“The truth is WE ALL ACHE. WE ALL HAVE GROWING PAINS and wonder if WE ARE OKAY adn enough + loved. THE THING IS - WE ARE. REALLY. WITHOUT the silver shoes and lepord print sheet. WE ARE ENOUGH WITHOUT all the things we buy to make us much more than we are or need to be we are simple and complex and rare as is.”

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Author:Sabrina Ward Harrison

“Always, the eye sees more than the mind can comprehend, and we go through life self-blinded to much that lies before us. We want a simple world, but we live in a magnificently complex one, and rather than open ourselves to it, we perceive the world through filters that make it less daunting.”

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Book:Relentless: A Novel

Source: Relentless: A Novel

“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest. The guiding motto in the life of every natural philosopher should be ``Seek simplicity and distrust it.''”

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Book:The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

Source: The Concept of Nature: Tarner Lectures

“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.”

“Simple, clear purpose and principles give rise to complex intelligent behavior. Complex rules and regulations give rise to simple stupid behavior.”

“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.”

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Author:Confucius

“Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.”

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Author:Alan Perlis

“If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.”

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Author:Benjamin Stanley Rosenthal

“Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.”

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Author:Alan Kay

“I want to take some quite incredible photographs that have never been taken before... pictures which are simple and complex at the same time, which will amaze and overwhelm people ... I must achieve this so that photography can begin to be considered a form of art.”

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Author:Alexander Rodchenko

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