(67 quotes found)
“Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau
“The whole idea of a stereotype is to simplify. Instead of going through the problem of all this great diversity - that it's this or maybe that - you have just one large statement; It is this.”
Chinua Achebe
“[To simplify] is very nearly the whole of the higher artistic process; finding what conventions of form and what detail one can do without -- and yet preserve the spirit of the whole.”
Willa Sibert Cather
“What's really important is to simplify. The work of most photographers would be improved immensely if they could do one thing: get rid of the extraneous. If you strive for simplicity, you are more likely to reach the viewer.”
William Albert Allard
“Our life is frittered away by detail ... simplify, simplify.”
“People's fates are simplified by their names.”
Elias Canetti
“We've gone through the operating system and looked at everything and asked how can we simplify this and make it more powerful at the same time,”
Steve Jobs
“The whole emphasis of the system is on empowering the end-user. We have seriously simplified a whole bunch of processes because everything is centrally managed.”
Bill Farmer
“We had been working on this for several years, and Barbara came in and simplified the process. She spent hours and hours working out the details. Her determination, creativity and installation of the program was so smooth. We haven't had to make any changes except in raising the enrollment fees.”
Bessie Gruwell
“This year, we went back to simplifying everything and we stuck with one basic strategy.”
Anthony Ferrer