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“Desired substance, things, patterns, or sequences of experience that are in some sense "good" for the organism - items of diet, conditions of life, temperature, entertainment, sex, and so forth - are never such that more of the something is always better than less of the something. Rather, for all objects and experiences, there is a quantity that has optimum value. Above that quantity, the variable becomes toxic. To fall below that value is to be deprived.”

Values Fall Sex Conditions Objects Simplicity Patterns Entertainment Substance Diets Toxic Quantity Organisms Items Sequence Deprived Temperature Variables Optimum

Author:Gregory Bateson

“Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.”

Ifs Men Want Dies Simplicity Complicated Organisms Doomed Extinction Simple Life

Author:Ezra Pound

“Nothing is as simple as we hope it will be.”

Simple Simplicity

Author:Jim Horning

“In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.”

Thinking Firsts Use Situation Moral Plans Fit Models Increase Simplicity Sentences Experiments Data Analysis Complexity Single Sentence

Author:John Tukey

“What is commonest and cheapest and nearest and easiest is Me, Me going in for my chances, spending for vast returns, Adorning myself to bestow myself on the first that will take me, Not asking the sky to come down to my goodwill, Scattering if freely forever.”

Ifs Firsts Chance Forever Sky Return Asking Simplicity Spending Take Me Goodwill

Book:Walt Whitman's

Source: Walt Whitman's

“Two wings lift a person up from earthly concerns: Simplicity in intention, and Purity in feeling.”

Persons Two Feelings Concern Wings Intention Simplicity Lifts Purity Purity Of Intention

Author:Thomas a Kempis

“Whatever's merely willful, and not miraculous (be never it so skilful) must wither fail and cease - but better than to grow beauty knows no.”

Knows Grows Failing Simplicity Cease Miraculous

Author:e. e. cummings

“He lacks much who has no aptitude for idleness.”

Work Simplicity Idleness Aptitude

Author:Louise Wilder

“Simple pleasures are the last healthy refuge in a complex world.”

World Lasts Simple Pleasure Healthy Complexes Simplicity Refuge Simple Pleasures

Author:Oscar Wilde

“Simplicity and naturalness are the truest marks of distinction.”

Mark Simplicity Distinction Truest

Book:Mr. Maugham Himself

Source: Mr. Maugham Himself

“Simplicity is a state of mind.”

Mind States Simplicity State Of Mind

Book:The Simple Life

Source: The Simple Life

“Do not be afraid of simplicity. If you have a cold chicken for supper, why cover it with a tasteless white sauce which makes it look like a pretentious dish on the buffet table at some fance dress ball?”

Ifs Looks White Food Cold Balls Dresses Tables Simplicity Chickens Dishes Sauce Pretentious Supper Buffets

Author:Marcel Boulestin

“It matters not how simple the food - a chop, steak or a plain boiled or roast joint, but let it be of good quality and properly cooked, and everyone who partakes of it will enjoy it.”

Matter Enjoy Simple Quality Simplicity Joints Steak Good Quality

Book:Soyer's cookery book

Source: Soyer's cookery book

“A refined simplicity is the characteristic of all high bred deportment, in every country, and a considerate humanity should be the aim of all beneath it.”

Should Country Humanity Aim Simplicity Characteristics Refined Considerate

Author:James F. Cooper

“The price we pay for the complexity of life is too high. When you think of all the effort you have to put in -telephonic, technological and relational -to alter even the slightest bit of behavior in this strange world we call social life, you are left pining for the straightforwardness of primitive peoples and their physical work.”

Thinking World Life Is Left Social Bits Effort Pay Strange Behavior Simplicity Complexity Primitive Technological Social Life Pining Strange World

Author:Jean Baudrillard

“Nothing is true, but that which is simple.”

Simple Simplicity

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.”

Thinking Seems Simple Clear Intellectual Complexes Simplicity Obscure Comradeship

Author:David Seabury

“Life will not bear refinement. You must do as other people do.”

People Bears Simplicity Refinement

Book:The Life of Samuel Johnson

Source: The Life of Samuel Johnson

“There is repetition everywhere, and nothing is found only once in the world.”

World Found Simplicity Repetition

Author:Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

“The qualities in music which I considered most important - and still do - were beauty, simplicity, originality, discrimination, and sincerity.”

Stills Important Quality Music Jazz Musical Simplicity Discrimination Sincerity Originality

Author:Paul Desmond

“A logical analysis of reflexive usages in French shows, however, that this simplicity is an illusion and that, so far from helping the foreigner, it is more calculated to bother him.”

Helping Shows Illusion Simplicity Bother Analysis Logical Foreigners Usage

Book:General Linguistics

Source: General Linguistics

“Successful people understand that you don't need to make things complicated.”

People Inspirational Needs Women Successful Empowerment Simplicity Complicated Women Empowerment Successful People Empowering Women Empowered Women

Author:Anne McKevitt

“My policy is not how fast you play, it's not how much you play but it's what you play and where you play it ... play for the commercial side of the music ... the word I still use today is called "simplicity" .. it is so important that you use simplicity in your playing and in your music.”

Stills Important Play Use Today Sides Music Policy Simplicity

Author:James Burton

“We are in an age of religious complexity. The simplicity which is in Christ is rarely found among us. In its stead are programs, methods, organizations, and a world of nervous activities which occupy time and attention but can never satisfy the longing of the heart.”

World Heart Age Found Christ Religious Attention Activity Program Organization Method Longing Simplicity Nervous Complexity

Author:Aiden Wilson Tozer

“I still hate making pictures! And I don't like Hollywood any better. I detest the limelight and love simplicity, and in Hollywood the only thing that matters is the hullabaloo of fame. If Hollywood will let me alone to find my way without forcing me and rushing me into things, I probably will change my feelings about it. But at present Hollywood seems utterly horrible and interfering and consuming. Which is why I want to leave it as soon as I am able.”

“The soul of politeness is not a question of rules but of tranquility, humility, and simplicity. And in the taking of tea it finds perhaps its most perfect expression.”

Soul Perfect Humility Expression Simplicity Tea Tranquility Politeness

Book:Tea and Etiquette

Source: Tea and Etiquette

“Simplicity is the essence of universality.”

Essence Simplicity Universality

Book:The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

Source: The Mind of Mahatma Gandhi

“The great seal of truth is simplicity.”

Truth Truth Is Simplicity Seals

Author:Herman Boerhaave

“Simplicity is the outcome of technical subtlety; it is the goal, not the starting point.”

Goal Starting Simplicity Outcomes Subtlety Starting Point

Author:Maurice Saatchi

“The main purpose of science is simplicity and as we understand more things, everything is becoming simpler.”

Science Purpose Becoming Simplicity

Book:Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

Source: Conversations on the Dark Secrets of Physics

“The more simple we are, the more complete we become.”

Simple Simplicity

Author:Auguste Rodin

“...it is simplicity that is difficult to make.”

Difficult Simplicity Software Design

Author:Bertolt Brecht

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

Should Simple Complexes Simplicity Programming Simple Things Computer Programming Programming Languages Computer Language Software Design Simplicity In Design Simple And Complex

Author:Alan Kay

“At first I hoped that such a technically unsound project would collapse but I soon realized it was doomed to success. Almost anything in software can be implemented, sold, and even used given enough determination. There is nothing a mere scientist can say that will stand against the flood of a hundred million dollars. But there is one quality that cannot be purchased in this way - and that is reliability. The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.”

“It's hard to read through a book on the principles of magic without glancing at the cover periodically to make sure it isn't a book on software design.”

Book Hard Principles Magic Design Simplicity Software Software Design

Author:Bruce Tognazzini

“The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.”

Purpose Levels Design Simplicity Vague Precise Abstraction Computer Programming

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“The difference between a good and a poor architect is that the poor architect succumbs to every temptation and the good one resists it.”

Differences Poor Design Simplicity Temptation Architect

Author:Ludwig Wittgenstein

“Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.”

“Computer Science is the only discipline in which we view adding a new wing to a building as being maintenance.”

Views Learning Building Discipline Computer Wings Simplicity Programming Maintenance Computer Programming Computer Science Programming Languages Computer Language

Author:Jim Horning

“Architect: Someone who knows the difference between that which could be done and that which should be done.”

Knows Should Done Differences Design Simplicity Architect

Author:Larry McVoy

“Testing by itself does not improve software quality. Test results are an indicator of quality, but in and of themselves, they don't improve it. Trying to improve software quality by increasing the amount of testing is like trying to lose weight by weighing yourself more often. What you eat before you step onto the scale determines how much you will weigh, and the software development techniques you use determine how many errors testing will find. If you want to lose weight, don't buy a new scale; change your diet. If you want to improve your software, don't test more; develop better.”

Source: Code Complete

“The most important single aspect of software development is to be clear about what you are trying to build.”

Trying Important Learning Clear Development Aspect Simplicity Programming Software Programmers Software Design Software Development

Book:The C++ Programming Language

Source: The C++ Programming Language

“Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty is intimately related to our ability to process and understand complexity. A language that makes it hard to write elegant code makes it hard to write good code.”

Way Writing Humans Hard Language Process Ability Learning Program Simplicity Ugly Code Bridges Perceive Related Complexity Programming Collapse Engineers Elegant Liable Suspension

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“How good the design is doesn't matter near as much as whether the design is getting better or worse. If it is getting better, day by day, I can live with it forever. If it is getting worse, I will die.”

Ifs I Can Matter Dies Forever Design Simplicity Get Better Better Days

Author:Kent Beck

“Voluntary simplicity has more to do with the state of mind than a person's physical surroundings and possessions.”

Mind Persons States Simple Simplicity Possession State Of Mind Surroundings Simple Living

Author:Duane Elgin

“As my spiritual growth expanded and developed, voluntary simplicity was a natural outgrowth. I came to realize the cost of material accumulation was too high and offered fewer and fewer real rewards, psychological and spiritual.”

Real Spiritual Growth Realizing Natural Simple Materials Cost Rewards Simplicity Psychological Spiritual Growth Fewer Accumulation Simple Living

Author:Duane Elgin

“It seems to me that inner growth is the whole moving force behind voluntary simplicity.”

Whole Seems Moving Force Growth Simple Behinds Simplicity Simple Living Inner Growth

Author:Duane Elgin

“To me, voluntary simplicity means integration and awareness in my life.”

Mean Simple Awareness Simplicity Integration Simple Life Simple Living

Author:Duane Elgin

“Simplicity is the whole secret of well-being.”

Wells Whole Simple Secret Simplicity Well Being Simple Living

Book:The Snow Leopard

Source: The Snow Leopard

“One remarkable feature of the devotional masters is the incredible sense of uniform witness in the midst of such diverse personalities... and the necessity of Christian simplicity is one of their most consistent themes.”

Christian Simple Masters Personality Incredibles Simplicity Witness Features Theme Consistent Remarkable Midst Diverse Uniforms Simple Living Devotional

Book:Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

Source: Richard Foster's treasury of Christian discipline

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