Simplification Quotes

• Knowledge is a process of piling up facts; wisdom lies in their simplification.

  Martin Luther King, Jr.

  Education, Wisdom, Lying

  "Encore : A Continuing Anthology‬". Book by Smith Dent, p. 309, March 1945.

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• The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak.

  Hans Hofmann

  Inspirational, Business, Mean

  1967 Search for the Real.

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• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful.

  John Maeda

  Meaningful, Simplicity, Design

  Twitter post from Nov 17, 2013

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• Order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject.

  Thomas Mann

  Order, Simplicity, Steps

  Thomas Mann (1969). “The Magic Mountain”, Vintage

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• Almost all quality improvement comes via simplification of design, manufacturing... layout, processes, and procedures.

  Tom Peters

  Business, Design Process, Poor Quality

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• Science may be described as the art of systematic over-simplification.

  Karl Popper

  Funny, Art, Crazy

  1982 Quoted in the Observer,1Aug.

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• Certain environments, certain modes of life, and certain rules of conduct are more conducive to inner and outer harmony than others. There are, in fact, certain roads that one may follow. Simplification is one of them.

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh

  Simplicity, May, Facts

  Anne Morrow Lindbergh (2010). “Gift from the Sea”, p.16, Random House

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• The simplification of anything is always sensational.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Sensational

  "Varied Types". Book by Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1903.

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• The simplification of life is one of the steps to inner peace.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Mulling Over, Inner Peace, Steps

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• A little simplification would be the first step toward rational living, I think.

  Eleanor Roosevelt

  Inspirational Life, Simple, Thinking

  Eleanor Roosevelt (1938). “My Days”

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• My characters have undergone the same process of simplification as the colors. Now that they have been simplified, they appear more human and alive than if they had been represented in all their details.

  Joan Miro

  Character, Artist, Color

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• It is easy to talk about tax simplification, and we all know it is very difficult to accomplish; but for the last three Congresses, I have offered a tax simplification bill that would include a paid-for repeal of alternative minimum tax.

  Richard Neal

  Three, Alternatives, Bills

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• 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 in fiction.

  Zadie Smith

  Book, People, Battle

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• 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 in one's life.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Inspirational, Life, Simplicity

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• We could quite easily, Republicans and Democrats working together, do something that everybody in America desires, and that is a simplification of our Tax Code.

  Richard Neal

  America, Working Together, Desire

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• There are elements of intrinsic beauty in the simplification of a house built on the log cabin idea.

  Gustav Stickley

  Beauty, Ideas, House

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• We are sliding into a time of simplification where the practical design of everyday things will be an important demand to consider

  Kay Bojesen

  Everyday Things, Design, Important

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• You ask what is the use of classification, arrangement, and systemization? I answer you: order and simplification are the first steps toward the mastery of a subject - the actual enemy is the unknown.

  Thomas E. Mann

  Order, Enemy, Firsts

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• Making a comeback is one of the most difficult things to do with dignity.

  Greg Lake

  Dignity, Comeback, Defeat

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• 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 in one's life. For me this began with a discovery of the meaninglessness of possessions beyond my actual and immediate needs. As soon as I had brought myself down to need level, I began to feel a wonderful harmony in my life between inner and outer well-being, between spiritual and material well-being.

  Peace Pilgrim

  Spiritual, Discovery, Inner Peace

  Peace Pilgrim (1992). “Peace Pilgrim: Her Life and Work in Her Own Words”, p.51, Friends of Peace PIlgrim

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• Sometimes the best solution is simplification.

  Bobby Bragan

  Sometimes, Solutions

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• Simplification is one of the most difficult things to do.

  Jonathan Ive

  Kindness, Business, Comeback

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• I do not feel any contempt for an atheist, who is often a man limited and constrained by his own logic to a very sad simplification.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Atheist, Men, Logic

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• A short story is simplification to the highest degree

  Henry Seidel Canby

  Degrees, Stories, Short Story

  Henry Seidel Canby (1902). “Yale Studies in English”

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• Simplification is as much in the mind as it is in the device.

  Donald A. Norman

  Mind, Devices

  Donald A. Norman (2010). “Living with Complexity”, p.13, MIT Press

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