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Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

— Edsger Dijkstra

To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

— Don Altman

My aesthetic is about simplicity, elegance, and comfort, whether that is interpreted in a man's suit or a track suit.

— Giorgio Armani

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function

— Anonymous

I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out…

— Demetri Martin

The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [...] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a…

— Fernando J. Corbato

When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have…

— Michio Kaku

Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would…

— William P. Alford

...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…

— Edsger Dijkstra

While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very…

— Francis Crick

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

— Albert Einstein

“Some people argue that economics is an exception to this general story. Economics, they say, provides a much more analytically precise and tightly integrated…

— Thomas Homer-Dixon

“All knowledge of reality starts from experience and ends in it.” But he immediately proceeded to emphasize the role that “pure reason” and logical…

— Walter Isaacson

Sometimes I introduce myself to people, and their reaction reminds me that it's insane that my name is Beanie.

— Beanie Feldstein

When I was little, my grandmother would take me to church with her, and she would introduce me to people.

— Karin Slaughter