Simpler Quotes

Things should be made as simple as possible, but not any simpler. (Albert Einstein)
Life was a lot simpler when what we honored was father and mother rather than all major credit cards. View quote
Robert Orben
The basic parts, the start-up molecules, can be supplied in abundance and don't have to be made by some elaborate process. That immediately makes things simpler. View quote
K. Eric Drexler
Poor Faulkner. Does he really think big emotions come from big words He thinks I don't know the ten-dollar words. I know them all right. But there are older and simpler and better words, and those are the ones I use. View quote
Ernest Hemingway
An expert is someone who has succeeded in making decisions and judgements simpler through knowing what to pay attention to and what to ignore. View quote
Edward de Bono
The aim of science is to make difficult things understandable in a simpler way; the aim of poetry is to state simple things in an incomprehensible way. The two are incompatible. View quote
Paul Dirac
Thoughts are the shadows of our sensations -- always darker, emptier, simpler than these. View quote
Friedrich Nietzsche
In sum, the processes of evolution create initially comparatively simple dynamical systems on particular levels of organisation. The processes then lead to the progressive complexification of the existing systems and, ultimately, to the creation of simpler systems on the next higher organisational level, where complexification begins anew. Thus evolution moves from the simpler to the more complex, and from the lower to the higher level of organisation. View quote
Ervin László
My palate is simpler than it used to be. A young chef adds and adds and adds to the plate. As you get older, you start to take away. View quote
Jacques Pepin
I like telling stories about people with problems. I can't really put it much simpler than that. View quote
Steve Buscemi
Don't explain computers to laymen. Simpler to explain sex to a virgin. (Robert A. Heinlein)
In a mad world it always seems simpler to obey. View quote
Graham Greene
I build things that I think are exciting from a technology standpoint and will help make life easier, simpler and better for people. View quote
Philippe Kahn
If your morals make you dreary, depend upon it they are wrong. I do not say "give them up," for they may be all you have; but conceal them like a vice, lest they should spoil the lives of better and simpler people. View quote
Robert Louis Stevenson
If, after I die, they should want to write my biography, There's nothing simpler. I've just two dates-of my birth, and of my death. In between the one thing and the other all the days are mine. View quote
Fernando Pessoa
We need examples of people who, leaving Heaven to decide whether they are to rise in the world, decide for themselves that they will be happy in it, and have resolved to seek not greater wealth, but simpler pleasure; not higher fortune, but deeper felicity; making the first of possessions, self-possession; and honouring themselves in the harmless pride and calm pursuits of peace. View quote
John Ruskin
When the wind carries a cry which is meaningful to human ears, it is simpler to believe the wind shares with us some part of the emotion of Being than that the mysteries of a hurricane's rising murmur reduce to no more than the random collision of insensate molecules. View quote
Norman Mailer
Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains. View quote
Thomas Henry Huxley
It's not movies and it's not "fine art." The beauty of a comic is that it's clear, direct communication. My work is getting simpler and more cartoony because I'm much more interested in communication now than in any illustrative value. View quote
Frank Miller
Daily life is a comprimised blend of posturing for the sake of role-playing and of varying degrees of self-revelation. Under stressful conditions even the "true" self cannot be precisely defined, as Erving Goffman observes. ...Little wonder that the identity crisis is a major source of modern neuroticism, and that the urban middle class aches for a return to a simpler existence. View quote
E. O. Wilson
She's always looking for poetry and passion and sensitivity, the whole Romantic kitchen. I live on a rather simpler diet.' 'Prose and pudding?''I don't expect attractive men necessarily to have attractive souls. (John Fowles)
For those who believe in God the matter is simpler still and clearly than anything else: because those who believe in God believe that God is the Creator of the whole Universe and there is nothing that does not come from Him. View quote
Morarji Desai
Life is full of risks. Death is much simpler. View quote
Cassandra Clare
Wanting to reform the world without discovering one's true self is like trying to cover the world with leather to avoid the pain of walking on stones and thorns. It is much simpler to wear shoes. View quote
Ramana Maharshi
If you cannot solve the proposed problem, try to solve first a simpler related problem. View quote
George Pólya