The brain, Schopenhauer says, is the 'one great tool' that has enabled a creature endowed with neither sharp teeth nor claws to… — Julian Young Copy Share Image
Simplification seems to be the removal of objects for the goal of making a graphic as clean and uncluttered as possible. Whereas,… — David Mccandless Copy Share Image
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously… — John Kenneth Galbraith Copy Share Image
“our perceptions of the external world are habitually clouded by the verbal notions in terms of which we do our thinking. We… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“I didn’t “grow” wise, spiritual, or happy.. I shrunk towards it. I didn’t add; I subtracted… There is wisdom in simplification… There… — Steve Maraboli Copy Share Image
One of the things I've been working on for the past few months is a radical simplification of the interface. — Matt Mullenweg Copy Share Image
I believe that we can still have a genre of scientific books suitable for and accessible alike to professionals and interested laypeople.… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea. First, there is the… — Gustav Stickley Copy Share Image
It's just that the longer I fish, the more I long for simplification and lightness. — Tom Sutcliffe Copy Share Image
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“...All of these writings could be reduced to mere “thought-provoking content,” for the system devours everything in its path like a never-satisfied… — Sov8840 Copy Share Image
Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There… — Anne Morrow Lindbergh Copy Share Image
“How to accept the diversity and mutilation of the world, while retaining the minds power for analogy and unity, so this changing… — Carlos Fuentes Copy Share Image
“When we simplify, we are attending to our minds. Clear minds lead to creativity, vision, health, and productivity.” — Angela Lynne Craig Copy Share Image
By sort of combining the research of a lot of smart people, I came up with an equation for dread [dread=uncontrollability+unfamiliarity+imaginability+suffering+scale of… — Amanda Ripley Copy Share Image
The higher processes are all processes of simplification. The novelist must learn to write, and then he must unlearn it; just as… — Willa Cather Copy Share Image
“The Simplicity Test 1. "Would my grandmother understand this?" 2. "Would I want to explain this at a cocktail party?" 3. "Would… — Greg Born Copy Share Image
Every attempt to explain human behavior, especially the irrational, must as a matter of course end in simplification. — Morton Irving Seiden Copy Share Image
Simplification of modes of proof is not merely an indication of advance in our knowledge of a subject, but is also the… — Lord Kelvin Copy Share Image
Like medieval theologians we had a philosophy that explained everything to us in advance, and everything that did not fit could be… — J. William Fulbright Copy Share Image
There never was a sounder logical maxim of scientific procedure than Ockham's razor: Entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem. That is to… — Charles Sanders Peirce Copy Share Image
The Declaration of Independence is the all-time masterpiece of ideological simplification. There in a single sentence of self-evident truth, the founding Fathers… — Clarence Manion Copy Share Image
If we were the problem, it would be very convenient, kick Greece out, everything's fine. But what happened to Spain? What about… — George Papandreou Copy Share Image
