Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible. — Donald A. Norman Copy Share Image
Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity… — Chai Lu Copy Share Image
We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial,… — Ben Whishaw Copy Share Image
You cannot reduce the complexity of a given task beyond a certain point. Once you've reached that point, you can only shift… — Larry Tesler Copy Share Image
Ethnic stereotypes are misshapen pearls, sometimes with a sandy grain of truth at their center. ... but they ignore complexity, change, and individuality. — Anna Quindlen Copy Share Image
I think I'm drawn to characters with complexity or who are under duress in some way and have some conflict going on. — Emily Blunt Copy Share Image
Success means your options multiply. Size increases complexity, and complexity can confuse vision. — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
The smell of subjectivity clings to the mechanical definition of complexity as stubbornly as it sticks to the definition of information. — Hans Christian von Baeyer Copy Share Image
My hope is that I'm going to continue to make more and more challenging work that's going to come out more and… — Darren Aronofsky Copy Share Image
I'm glad that we have a history at all and that we can talk about feminist history. But I do think that… — Jessica Valenti Copy Share Image
I wanted to keep the complexity of the female experience in the film as much as it is in the book, and… — Erin Cressida Wilson Copy Share Image
When you can't fix all your problems with your fists and the problems aren't solely physical, and you've got to deal with… — Antony Starr Copy Share Image
It used to be that if your automobile broke, the teenager down the street with the wrench could fix it. Now you… — Howard Rheingold Copy Share Image
It's important to understand the work that's being done, and to make sure it's actually helping. And sometimes, by working on it… — Regine Chassagne Copy Share Image
Any irrational fears?no, i'm quite a rationalist. i'm not superstitious, i think life is too full of natural wonders and logical complexities… — Benedict Cumberbatch Copy Share Image
The Enormous Room seems to me to be the book that has nearest approached the mood of reckless adventure in which men… — John Dos Passos Copy Share Image
To invoke a Kierkegaardesque figure of speech, the beauty of the language of the Bible can be like a set of dentist's… — Jaroslav Pelikan Copy Share Image
I never meet a church that wishes they didn't do it. I never meet a leader that wishes they didn't do it.… — Michael Emerson Copy Share Image
Linda was nine then, as I was, but we were in love...it had all the shadings and complexities of mature adult love… — Tim O'Brien Copy Share Image
Perhaps we humans are cosmic dwarfs; perhaps we are molecular giants. But there is no denying our mid-scale complexity. We humans live… — Holmes Rolston III Copy Share Image
Finally one should add that in spite of the great complexity of protein synthesis and in spite of the considerable technical difficulties… — Francis Crick Copy Share Image
Beauty and art pervade all the business of life like a kindly genius, brightly adorning our surroundings whether interior or exterior, mitigating… — Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel Copy Share Image
A good novel is one that shows the complexity of individuals, and creates enough space for all these characters to have a… — Azar Nafisi Copy Share Image
The formation of character in young people is educationally a different task from, and a prior task to, the discussion of the… — William Bennett Copy Share Image
Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and… — Chris Sacca Copy Share Image
If there is one word that makes creative people different from others, it is the word complexity. Instead of being an individual,… — Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi Copy Share Image
“The paradox of illuminating complexity is that it is inherently difficult to do so without erasing all of the nuance.” — David Shenk Copy Share Image
“As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but… — Criss Jami Copy Share Image
“I have a theory that kitchens, once they reach a certain level of complexity, attract new gadgets into their orbit, like planets.” — Kerry Greenwood Copy Share Image
Country's cool if you like that kind of thing, but it doesn't have the complexity or - what's the word? - subtlety. — Butch Trucks Copy Share Image
Someone once asked me if I was gay. I said, 'Do you think a three-letter word defines the complexity of my humanity?'… — Cecil Taylor Copy Share Image
Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core. — Eric Lander Copy Share Image
When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard… — Richard Branson Copy Share Image
There's merit in ministers being just open with the public about the inherent complexity and uncertainty of many of the decisions that… — David Lidington Copy Share Image
You cannot communicate complicated information to large groups of people. As you increase the number of people, you have to decrease the… — Andy Stanley Copy Share Image
“Put broadly, the object of study in mathematics is truth; the object of study in computer science is complexity.” — Brian Christian Copy Share Image
Optimization hinders evolution. Everything should be built top-down, except the first time. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it. — Alan Perlis Copy Share Image
Wordsmiths who serve established power...castrate the public imagination by subjecting language to a complexity which renders it private. Elitism is always their… — John Ralston Saul Copy Share Image
“systems theory or, as some people might call it, complexity theory? The simplest explanation is that it is the study of interactions.” — Rich Jolly Copy Share Image
Worry can't change anything, except one thing. It changes your life to be more complicated. — Ritu Copy Share Image
