Anyone who stops learning is old, whether at twenty or eighty. Anyone who keeps learning stays young. Henry Ford.
Successful conversation will take you very far. Badfinger.
You can't always get what you want. But if you try sometime, you might find, you get what you need. Mick Jagger.
Great minds discuss ideas. Average minds discuss events. Small minds discuss people. Eleanor Roosevelt.
Simplifying and simplicity are never simple matters. Hans Hofmann.
Simplicity and communication have a wonderful mutually supporting relationship. Kent Beck.
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it. Alan Perlis.
One person's simple is another person's complex. Kent Beck.
What is simplicity? Delete everything that doesn't have a purpose. Kent Beck.
The principle of economy requires that representations of structure contain no more than the necessary elements. Noam Chomsky.
Minimalism derives from a need for simplification. Noam Chomsky.
Lets not combine ignorance with inaudibility. Speak up! Mrs. Cook, my freshman English Professor
Dealing with complexity is an unnecessary waste of time, attention, and mental energy. Edward de Bono.
There is never any justification for things being complex when they could be simple. Edward de Bono.
If you put something simply, you are at the mercy of those who understand neither the subject nor simplicity. Edward de Bono.
It is only when you have a headache that not having a headache is such a very high value. Edward de Bono.
Outside of art, complexity for the sake of complexity has no value whatsover. Edward de Bono.
There is a huge overlap between creativity and simplification. Edward de Bono.
Simplicity is not easy. Edward de Bono.
There is no natural tendency towards simplicity. Edward de Bono.
Simplicity needs a determined effort - it does not just happen. Edward de Bono.
There is a natural tendency for systems to increase in complexity over time. Edward de Bono.
Creativity is the description of a result. Lateral thinking is the description of a process. One can only admire a result, but one can learn to use a process. Edward de Bono.
Complexity sells better. Edsgar Dijkstra.
Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. Edsgar Dijkstra.
Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability. Edsgar Dijkstra.
The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges. Edsgar Dijkstra.
Lets not let the facts bother us. One of my computer science professors at GA Tech.
All models are wrong. Some models are useful.- Bruce Eckel.
A genius is a talented person who has done all his homework. Thomas Edison.
The ability to simplify means to eliminate the unnecessary so that the necessary may speak. Hans Hofmann.
A good programming language helps programmers write good programs. No programming language will pervent its users from writing bad programs. Kees Koster.
Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication. Leonardo da Vinci.
Making the simple complicated is commonplace. Making the complicated simple, that's creativity. Charles Mingus.
Communication is a thought process, not the production of sound waves. Michel Thomas.
Don't get sidetracked by the sound waves. Michel Thomas.
All generalizations are false, including this one. Mark Twain.
Most problems in computer science can be resolved by another level of indirection. David Wheeler.
People seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication. Niklaus Wirth.
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