Quotes About Simplicity And Elegance

#1. I like to think that I can introduce people to the idea of simplicity and elegance.

Giorgio Armani

#2. Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because thy require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#3. To be alive is to totally and openly participate in the simplicity and elegance of here and now.

Don Altman

#4. While Occam's razor is a useful tool in the physical sciences, it can be a very dangerous implement in biology. It is thus very rash to use simplicity and elegance as a guide in biological research.

Francis Crick

#5. The general problem with ambitious systems is complexity. [ ... ] it is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties.

Fernando J. Corbato

#6. When you come up with a theory, you fall in love with the beauty the simplicity and elegance of it. But then you have to get a sheet of paper and pencil and crack out all the details. Hundreds and hundreds of pages. Because you have to prove it.

Michio Kaku

#7. They learned to live contently with small things, to seek elegance rather than luxury, and refinement rather than fashion, to be worthy not respectable, and to be rich not wealthy. They let the sacred and unconscious bloom amidst the common, rendering it all extraordinary.

David Paul Kirkpatrick

#8. Don't get me wrong, I admire elegance and have an appreciation of the finer things in life. But to me, beauty lies in simplicity.

Mark Hyman

#9. My definition of beauty is simplicity, elegance, and sensuality. I think that when a woman is in harmony with herself and remains true to her values, she will glow naturally.

Megan Fox

#10. I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function.

Donald Norman

#11. The famous Florentine elegance, which attracts tourists to the shops on Via Tornabuoni and Via della Vigna Nuova, is characterized by austerity of line, simplicity, economy of effect.

Mary McCarthy

#12. Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

Christian Dior

#13. In character, in manner, in style, in all the things, the supreme excellence is simplicity

Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

#14. He thought about explaining math's beauty to her, the elegance of an equation, the simplicity within the complexity. The thrill of touching truth and knowing it as ancient and unassailable, as permanent and profound.

Katie Kennedy

#15. True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

Henry Ward Beecher

#16. Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Paulo Coelho

#17. Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.

Girolamo Savonarola

#18. Simplicity is the keynote of all true elegance.

Coco Chanel

#19. Elegance of language may not be in the power of all of us; but simplicity and straight forwardness are. Write much as you would speak; speak as you think. If with your inferior, speak no coarser than usual; if with your superiors, no finer.

William P. Alford

#20. Elegance is achieved when, having discarded all superfluous things, we discover simplicity and concentration.

Paulo Coelho

#21. You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

Agatha Christie

#22. simplicity is the key of elegance

Coco Chanel

#23. Size and elaboration were often mistaken for importance.

Stephen L. Carter

#24. One thing that makes the adventure of working in our field particularly rewarding, especially in attempting to improve the theory, is that ... a chief criterion for the selection of a correct hypothesis ... seems to be the criterion of beauty, simplicity, or elegance.

Murray Gell-Mann

#25. Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance.

Jon Franklin

#26. If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

Ludwig Boltzmann

#27. Simplicity is the soul of modern elegance.

Bill Blass

#28. ...a very costly simplicity, one can notice, but not the elegance of a woman who gives much thought to her clothes; rather that of one who knows she can make any rag attractive and does it unconsciously."

Excerpt From: Ayn Rand. "Night of January 16th.

Ayn Rand

#29. Acknowledge the elegance of simplicity.

Giorgio Armani

#30. Simplicity," I said, "is true elegance. A woman is closest to being naked when she is well dressed. Her clothing should be seen only after she herself is.

C.W. Gortner

#31. Like all magnificent things, it's very simple.

Natalie Babbitt

#32. Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

Edsger W. Dijkstra

#33. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.

Gordon Willis

#34. Some things just work. There is elegance in simplicity.

Brandon Sanderson