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“Now and then, living more with less means paying more money. It may mean buying better quality - leaving behind repetitive purchases of discount junk for one expensive, well-made, thoughtfully designed tool that will last.”

Wells May Mean Made Lasts Simple Behinds Quality Tools Leaving Expensive Buying Now And Then More Money Junk Simple Living Repetitive Discounts Living More

Author:Doris Janzen Longacre

“PHP is about as exciting as your toothbrush. You use it every day, it does the job, it is a simple tool, so what? Who would want to read about toothbrushes?”

Want Doe Use Jobs Simple Tools Exciting Toothbrushes

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“I've never thought of PHP as more than a simple tool to solve problems.”

Problem Simple Tools Solve

Author:Rasmus Lerdorf

“The initial motive for developing APL was to provide a tool for writing and teaching. Although APL has been exploited mostly in commercial programming, I continue to believe that its most important use remains to be exploited: as a simple, precise, executable notation for the teaching of a wide range of subjects.”

Writing Believe Has Beens Important Use Simple Teaching Subjects Tools Remains Wide Developing Range Motive Programming Precise Initials

Author:Kenneth E. Iverson

“The most rewarding thing for me has been this affirmation for me that people are basically good and smart, and if you give them a simple tool that allows them to exhibit that behavior, they'll prove it to you every single day.”

People Ifs Giving Has Beens Simple Prove Behavior Smart Tools Affirmation Exhibits Prove It

Author:Biz Stone

“A powerful tool in the early stages of developing scenarios is to pretend the interface is magic. If your persona has goals and the product has magical powers to meet them, how simple could the interaction be? This kind of thinking is useful to help designers look outside the box.”

Source: About Face 3: The Essentials of Interaction Design

“I don't like gadgets for their own sake. I like gadgets that are tools. And I like simple gadgets that do one thing really well like a hammer.”

Wells Simple One Thing Tools Sake Hammers Gadgets

Author:Rob Corddry

“It took a while to find a passion for another career that was as strong as the passion that I had for football. Once I found it in acting, it was simple. Use the tools you were given from playing football and apply it to your new passion. I have done that through acting, producing and writing.”

Writing Done Use Passion Found Strong Given Simple Acting Careers Football Tools Playing Football

Author:Maurice Hall

“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.”

Knows Trying Stills Ideas Today School Simple Effort Principles Successful Stupid Design Communication Concepts Tools Details Simplest Keep It Simple

Author:Jeff Fisher

“There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection in the cerebral cortex for one simple reason: it works. It is not perfect. It can be misused. It is only a tool. But it is by far the best tool we have, self-correcting, ongoing, applicable to everything.”

Humans Doe Self Reason Earth Natural Simple Perfect Tools Species Invention Working It Selection Ongoing Not Perfect Natural Selection Correcting Cerebral Misused Human Inventions

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“Architects everywhere have recognized the need of ... a tool which may be put in the hands of creators of form, with the simple aim ... of making the bad difficult and the good easy.”

Needs May Hands Form Easy Difficult Simple Tools Aim Creator Architect

Author:Le Corbusier