Simplification Quotes

67 quotes by 56 authors

Memory is... similar to anticipation: an instrument of simplification and selection. — Alain de Botton
My tendency towards bareness and simplification has been practiced in three fields: modeling, colors, and the figuration of the personages. — Joan Miro
Do not be alarmed by simplification, complexity is often a device for claiming sophistication, or for evading simple truths. — John Kenneth Galbraith
That one never need to look beyond the love of money for explanation of human behavior is one of the most jealously guarded simplification of… — John Kenneth Galbraith
If western culture is shown to be rich, it is because, even before the Enlightenment, it has tried to 'dissolve' harmful simplifications through inquiry and… — Umberto Eco
Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject. — Thomas Mann
Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures. — Tom Peters
The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace. A persistent simplification will create an inner and outer well-being that places harmony… — Peace Pilgrim
Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification. — Karl Popper
A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think. — Eleanor Roosevelt
I like books that expose me to people unlike me and books that do battle against caricature or simplification. That, to me, is the heroic… — Zadie Smith
The track record of economists in predicting events is monstrously bad. It is beyond simplification; it is like medieval medicine. — Nassim Nicholas Taleb
People who donâ€™t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who donâ€™t know the… — Young-Ha Kim
The soul of wit may become the very body of untruth. However elegant and memorable, brevity can never, in the nature of things, do justice… — Aldous Huxley
I like silent pictures and I always have ... I wanted to restore some of this beauty. I thought of it, I remember in this… — Akira Kurosawa
A beautiful woman, Simone Weil said, seeing herself in the mirror, knows "This is I." An ugly woman knows with equal certainty, "This is not… — A. S. Byatt
The continent is too large to describe. It is a veritable ocean, a separate planet, a varied, immensely rich cosmos. Only with the greatest simplification,… — Ryszard Kapuscinski
the underlying struggle - between worlds of plenty and worlds of want; between the modern and the ancient; between those who embrace our teeming, colliding,… — Barack Obama
It would seem that more than function itself, simplicity is the deciding factor in the aesthetic equation. One might call the process beauty through function… — Raymond Loewy
Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification. — Martin Luther King, Jr.

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