Living Quote by Richard Halloway

Simplicity, clarity, singleness: These are the attributes that give our lives power and vividness and joy as they are also the marks of great…

— Richard Holloway

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure…

— Noah Lukeman

Policy wonks are often dazzled by the simplicity and clarity of an intellectual theory.

— Nick Boles

Simplicity is about clarity of thought and being willing to stay in a problem long enough to come to a solution, though it could…

— Dave Morin

I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than…

— Jonathan Ive

The vividness of children is easier to see when they're completely left to their own devices.

— Hirokazu Kore-eda

There is probably no finer prose writer alive in Britain now, no-one better at making a sentence, no-one better at descriptive writing, no-one who…

— Linda Grant

A. Douglas Stone, a physicist who has spent his life using quantum mechanics to explore striking new phenomena, has turned his considerable writing skills…

— Peter Galison

Any setting can potentially acquire this vividness. It slowly arrives during the period of research, until it is as immediate to me as my…

— Rose Tremain

In the case of drama (stage, movies, television ), there appear to be people in almost every audience who never quite fully realize that…

— S. I. Hayakawa

The intensity of vision in the artist and of vividness in his creations are the sole tests of his imaginative power.

— George Henry Lewes