Top 100 Simplicity Complexity Quotes
#1. 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
#2. Simplicity design axiom: The complexity of the information appliance is that of the task, not the tool. The technology is invisible.
Donald A. Norman
#3. 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
#4. 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
#5. Simplicities are enormously complex. Consider the sentence "I love you".
Richard O. Moore
#7. The average teacher explains complexity; the gifted teacher reveals simplicity.
Robert Breault
#8. 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
#10. 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
#11. Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure
Dean Cavanagh
#12. Cleverness isn't always true nor is the truth always clever.
Criss Jami
#13. In complexity, it is only simplicity that can be interesting.
Steven Weinberg
#14. 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
#15. 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
#16. 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
#17. The aim of science is always to reduce complexity to simplicity.
William James
#18. Supernatural simplicity viewed and perceived with complexity, naturally; many suffer from an outside-in misunderstanding.
T.F. Hodge
#19. 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
#20. Suddenly it was clear to me that all the beautiful complexity of life had simplicity at its core.
Eric Lander
#21. The opposite of simplicity is not complexity, but fragmentation and alienation.
Mark Sheppard
#22. Our complexity is much more likely to lead us astray than any simplicity we may follow.
Roger Kimball
#23. Complexity and intelligence grow from simplicity, not from greater complexity.
Brian Eno
#24. Principles are the simplicity on the far side of complexity.
Stephen R. Covey
#25. 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
#27. Narrow life down to what's precious and necessary. In a world of complexity the best weapon is simplicity.
Price Pritchett
#28. 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
#29. 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
#30. Progress is in simplification, which often follows complexity.
Pearl Zhu
#31. simplicity piled upon simplicity creates complexity.
Matt Ridley
#33. 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
#34. Even when the truth is in fact simple, simplicity is still relative.
Criss Jami
#36. 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
#37. The simplicity and the complexity are just the opposite ends of the same spectrum.
Pearl Zhu
#38. 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
#39. Technical skill is mastery of complexity, while creativity is mastery of simplicity.
Christopher Zeeman
#40. Happiness lies in simplicity
Complexity brings anxiety.
Debasish Mridha
#41. Human nature has a tendency to admire complexity but reward simplicity.
Ben Huh
#42. God transcends and encompasses conservatism and liberalism, certainty and doubt, simplicity and complexity, Divinity and humanity, crucifixion and resurrection.
Amos Smith
#43. 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
#44. 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
#45. 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
#46. Not all things that are simple are all that simple. Certain simple things carry complex weight!
Ernest Agyemang Yeboah
#47. 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
#48. 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
#49. He who despises simplicity will shout for a simple lifebuoy when drowning in the ocean of complexity!
Mehmet Murat Ildan
#50. The simplicity of existence is that it is. The complexity of existence is that it is not.
Rene Gaudette
#51. 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
#53. 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
#54. 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
#55. 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
#56. Complexity means distracted effort. Simplicity means focused effort.
Edward De Bono
#57. The only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity.
Alfred North Whitehead
#58. Simplicity and complexity need each other.
John Maeda
#59. 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.
#60. 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
#61. 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
#62. Simplicity of expression rather than complexity of form.
Bruce Lee
#63. 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
#64. If you don't fight for simplicity in software, complexity will win.
Henrik Joreteg
#65. Complexity is not good. People don't understand the elegance of simplicity.
Gordon Willis
#66. The right amount of complexity is what creates the optimal simplicity
David Allen
#67. Complexity is acceptable as long as it is intelligible and necessary. We want to avoid needless complications.
Donald A. Norman
#68. 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
#69. Men rush towards complexity, but they yearn towards simplicity. They try to be kings; but they dream of being shepherds.
Gilbert K. Chesterton
#70. 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
#71. 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
#72. Mastery comes via a monomaniacal focus on simplicity versus an addiction to complexity.
Robin Sharma
#73. 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
#74. 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
#75. 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
#76. The beauty of simplicity is the complexity it attracts.
Tom Robbins
#77. Complexity has nothing to do with intelligence, simplicity does.
Lawrence Bossidy
#78. 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
#79. The evolution of knowledge is toward simplicity, not complexity.
L. Ron Hubbard
#81. 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
#82. Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
#83. 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
#84. Life has its beauty in its simplicity.
Ugliness raises her head with complexity.
Debasish Mridha
#85. 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
#86. 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
#87. Nature is capable of building complex structures by processes of self-organization; simplicity begets complexity.
Victor J. Stenger
#88. In an age of complexity, it is not easy to live a simple life or to practice simplicity.
Debasish Mridha
#90. Simplicity may be simple, but like complexity it requires linguistic precision, and may therefore call for relatively obscure expressions at times.
John White
#91. A lot of guys see the complexity of the game; I see the simplicity.
Simeon Rice
#92. 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
#93. Everything has complexity. Everything has simplicity. You just grab it.
Yoko Ono
#94. 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
#95. 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
#96. Simplicity is a bliss that makes one comprehend.
Criss Jami
#97. A system tends to grow in complexity instead of simplicity, until the resulting unreliability becomes intolerable.
Paul Dickson
#98. Organizational progress parallels that in science and technology, permitting ultimate simplicity through intermediate complexity.
Thomas Sowell
#100. 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
