A lot of critics think I'm stupid because my sentences are so simple and my method is so direct: they think these are defects. No. The point is to write as much as you know as quickly as possible.
That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it's worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.
Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.
Dealing with complexity is an inefficient and unnecessary waste of time, attention and mental energy. There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple.
There is little to be gained by seeking after the mysteries, for there is hardly time in a lifetime to master the plain and precious things.
I feel so strongly that deep and simple is far more essential than shallow and complex.
The prime reason the Google homepage is so bare is due to the fact that the founders didn't know HTML and just wanted a quick interface. In fact, it was noted that the SUBMIT button was a long time coming and hitting the RETURN key was the only way to burst Google into life.
Those who of old were good practicers of Tao did not use it to make people bright, but rather used it to make them simple.
The default movement on a software project should be in the direction of taking elements of the software away to make it simpler rather than adding elements to make it more complex.
The older I get, the more I desire simplicity.
Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.
There is the desire of a consumer society to have no learning curves. This tends to result in very dumbed-down products that are easy to get started on, but are generally worthless and/or debilitating.
I don't like to over-intellectualize scenes that are working. I tend to think when you do that you may lose it.
It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.
I really love fashion, but I feel like the older I get, the more I am drawn to the basic things in my daily life because everything else is so goofy and crazy.
