Top 100 Simplicity Complexity Quotes
#2. Simplicity isn't just a visual style. It's not just minimalism or the absence of clutter. It involves digging through the depth of the complexity. To be truly simple, you have to go really deep.
Walter Isaacson
#3. The structures were austere and simple, until one looked at them and realized what work, what complexity of method, what tension of thought had achieved the simplicity.
Ayn Rand
#4. Doing a straight-forward, clear-cut task that has a beginning and an end balances out the complexity-without-end that often vexes the rest of my life. Sacred simplicity.
Robert Fulghum
#5. Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
Robin Sharma
#6. It is the last lesson of modern science, that the highest simplicity of structure is produced, not by few elements, but by the highest complexity.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
#7. I think there is a profound and enduring beauty in simplicity; in clarity, in efficiency. True simplicity is derived from so much more than just the absence of clutter and ornamentation. It's about bringing order to complexity.
Jonathan Ive
#8. Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#9. Just as all pop music is not simplistic, not all contemporary concert music is complex. Often what a person connects with goes much deeper than generalized issues of simplicity and complexity.
Michael Hersch
#10. Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
Donald A. Norman
#11. The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity
David Allen
#12. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.
Gordon Willis
#13. When East meets West, amazing design happens. L'Alahambra rug is a marriage of the clean line and simplicity of Western graphic design meets the complexity and beauty of Eastern pattern.
Genevieve Gorder
#14. 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
#15. Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.
Bruce Lee
#16. Darwinian natural selection only yields adaptation to changing local environments, and better function in an immediate habitat might just as well be achieved by greater simplicity in form and behavior as by ever-increasing complexity.
Stephen Jay Gould
#17. Creating simplicity often makes the heart leap; order has been restored, the crooked made straight. But order is understanding that things cannot be made simple, that complexity reigns and must be accepted.
Marina Warner
#18. For the simplicity on this side of complexity, I wouldn't give you a fig. But for the simplicity on the other side of complexity, for that I would give you anything I have.
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Sr.
#19. Simplicity and complexity need each other.
John Maeda
#20. The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#21. Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Edward De Bono
#22. In a single sentence the moral is: admit that complexity always increases, first from the model you fit to the data, thence to the model you use to think about and plan about the experiment and its analysis, and thence to the true situation.
John Tukey
#23. Is to bring about for them such a complexity of relations - unless indeed we call it a simplicity! - that the situation has to wind itself up. They want to go back.
Henry James
#24. Science offers us an explanation of how complexity (the difficult) arose out of simplicity (the easy). The hypothesis of God offers no worthwhile explanation for anything, for it simply postulates what we are trying to explain. It postulates the difficult to explain, and leaves it at that.
Richard Dawkins
#26. If you don't fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win.
Henrik Joreteg
#27. Artistic simplicity is more complex than artistic complexity for it arises via the simplification of the latter and against its backdrop or system.
Yuri Lotman
#29. Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
Thomas Sowell
#30. A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Paul Dickson
#31. Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
Criss Jami
#32. Personally, I am always more impressed by simplicity, clarity; it is the mark of a writer who knows his subject well and is secure enough not to 'lay it on' in the telling. Aim for complexity of thought, not expression.
Noah Lukeman
#33. Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.
Chris Sacca
#34. Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.
Yoko Ono
#35. When asked why they quit, the lapsed dieters cited complexity as the single most important reason for giving up. Simplicity is even more important when people are tired, stressed, or otherwise cognitively impaired.
Donald Sull
#36. A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.
Simeon Rice
#37. Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.
John White
#38. The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
Tom Robbins
#39. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#40. Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
Victor J. Stenger
#41. Human relationships are about communicating. Business jargon should be banished in favor of simple English. Simplicity is a sign of truth and a criterion of beauty. Complexity can be a way of hiding the truth.
Helena Rubinstein
#42. Part of the blame lies with intellectuals who are unable or unwilling to convey their ideas in terms that will play down to the cafe. But anyone who sits in that cafe and dismisses complexity by reveling in their own simplicity is no less pretentious.
Michael Perry
#43. Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity.
Debasish Mridha
#44. I would not give a fig for the simplicity on this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity. - Oliver Wendell Holmes
David Allen
#45. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
#46. I know that scenario... that "You are going to die"... bullshit and bullshit I was next to you what did I fucking get?
- Simple answers of so complex questions... So simple questions and so complex answers... I never mean that and I never wanted that to happen.
Deyth Banger
#48. The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
L. Ron Hubbard
#49. A woman to suck a dick... isn't a fact or mystery or complexity... it's simplicity. You just dial a number... to order a BIATCH.. .
Deyth Banger
#50. Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Lawrence Bossidy
#51. Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Christopher Zeeman
#52. Anarchy is a function, not of a society's simplicity and lack of social organization, but of it's complexity and multiplicity of social organizations.
Colin Ward
#53. Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
Stephen R. Covey
#54. Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
Brian Eno
#55. Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.
Roger Kimball
#56. The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
Mark Sheppard
#57. Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
Eric Lander
#58. Fate loves to invent patterns and designs. Its difficulty lies in complexity. But life itself is difficult because of its simplicity. It has only a few things of a grandeur not fit for us.
Rainer Maria Rilke
#59. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.
T.F. Hodge
#60. The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
William James
#61. Human beings, viewed as behaving systems, are quite simple. The apparent complexity of our behavior over time is largely a reflection of the complexity of the environment in which we find ourselves.
Herbert A. Simon
#62. The simplicity of photography lies in the fact that it is very easy to make a picture. The staggering complexity of it lies in the fact that a thousand other pictures of the same subject would have been equally easy.
John Szarkowski
#63. People who pride themselves on their "complexity" and deride others for being "simplistic" should realize that the truth is often not very complicated. What gets complex is evading the truth.
Thomas Sowell
#64. In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
Steven Weinberg
#65. Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
Criss Jami
#66. Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
Dean Cavanagh
#67. 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
#69. Contrary to what most people say and believe, the simplicity is a great thing, i actually believe in - complexity is a fantastic thing and complex things should be approached in a complex way.
Tarun J. Tejpal
#70. The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Robert Breault
#72. Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".
Richard O. Moore
#73. There is a simplicity that exists on the far side of complexity, and there is a communication of sentiment and attitude not to be discovered by careful exegesis of a text.
Pat Buchanan
#74. There's a certain fear of simplicity. I think that's the thing, when you're younger as an artist, you get this idea in your head that complexity equals quality. The more notes you're playing, the better.
Patrick Stump
#75. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
Donald A. Norman
#76. Among those who study painting, some strive for an elaborate effect and others prefer the simple. Neither complexity in itself nor simplicity is enough.
Chai Lu
#77. The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not.
Rene Gaudette
#78. He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#79. People often associate complexity with deeper meaning, when often after precious time has been lost, it is realized that simplicity is the key to everything.
Gary Hopkins
#80. It's Twitter's combination of simplicity and complexity that is astonishing in the same way that minimalist sculpture was inspiring and enlightening.
Kenneth Goldsmith
#81. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#82. Indeed, we have reached a level of complexity where simplicity itself is suspect. For example, the simple reality is that jobs migrate to less difficult nations. It's the old Rule of Capital: Capital goes where it is treated well.
Oliver DeMille
#83. As time moves on the line will blur. It will no longer seem to be the simplicity of good versus evil, but good versus fools who think they are good.
Criss Jami
#84. It comes from natural selection: the process which, as far as we know, is the only process ultimately capable of generating complexity out of simplicity.
Richard Dawkins
#85. God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.
Amos Smith
#86. Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.
Ben Huh
#87. Happiness lies in simplicity
Complexity brings anxiety.
Debasish Mridha
#89. For a child, it is in the simplicity of play that the complexity of life is sorted like puzzle pieces joined together to make sense of the world.
L.R. Knost
#90. The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.
Pearl Zhu
#91. You render the small vast and few many,
use integrity to repay hatred,
see the complexity in simplicity,
find the vast in the minute.
Lao-Tzu
#93. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#94. Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is who will have to deal with it, the user or the developer (programmer or engineer).
Larry Tesler
#96. simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.
Matt Ridley
#97. Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
Pearl Zhu
#98. Involving into an iterative process of simplifying the 'complexity', and then transforming this 'simplicity into newer complexity' while integrating the unsolved domain for an unprecedented success.
Priyavrat Thareja
#99. We are so mired in the complexity of our reactions to other people that when you come across someone who is asocial, there is a simplicity that is refreshing.
Ben Whishaw
#100. Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.
Price Pritchett
