Simplicity in design Quotes

Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

— Jon Franklin

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.

— Brian Kernighan

The unavoidable price of reliability is simplicity.

— Tony Hoare

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; ...

— Charles Mingus

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

— Alan Kay

Premature optimization is the root of all evil in programming.

— Tony Hoare

The cheapest, fastest, and most reliable components are those that aren't there.

— Gordon Bell

The absence of clutter is just a clutter-free product. That's not simple.

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Steve Jobs

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware…

— Jonathan Ive

There's an applied style of being minimal and simple, and then there's real simplicity. This looks simple, because it really is.

— Jonathan Ive

Simplicity is somehow essentially describing the purpose and place of an object and product.

— Jonathan Ive

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

— Steve Jobs

Design is the fundamental soul of a human-made creation that ends up expressing itself in successive outer layers of the product or…

— Steve Jobs

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem.

— R. Buckminster Fuller

A language that doesn't have everything is actually easier to program in than some that do

— Dennis Ritchie

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

— Steve Jobs

Simplicity is not the absence of clutter,

— Jonathan Ive

The broader one's understanding of the human experience, the better design we will have.

— Steve Jobs

There's something that human beings understand inherently about simplicity in design.

— Melody Gardot

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

— David Gelernter

It's really hard to design products by focus groups. A lot of times, people don't know what they want until you show…

— Steve Jobs

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling -- the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.

— Niklaus Wirth

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

— Albert Einstein