“Simplicity is the hallmark of truth— we should know better, but complexity continues to have a morbid attraction.” — Edsger Dijkstra, “The Threats to Computing Science“
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“Humans are aware of very little, it seems to me, the artificial brainy side of life, the worries and bills and the mechanisms of jobs, the doltish psychologies we’ve placed over our lives like a stencil. A dog keeps his life simple and unadorned.” — Brad Watson, Last Days of the Dog-Men
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“Certain ideas overwhelm us by their simplicity.” — V. S. Naipaul, The Mimic Men
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“The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanations of complex facts. We are apt to fall into the error of thinking that the facts are simple because simplicity is the goal of our quest.” — Alfred North Whitehead, The Concept of Nature
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“It is at the edge of madness that we attain to a glimpse of the overwhelming truth and simplicity of life.” — Henry Miller, The Wisdom of the Heart
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“Superiority makes every man feel its equal. It is courtesy without condescension; affability without familiarity; self-sufficiency without selfishness; simplicity without snide. It weighs sixteen ounces to the pound without the package, and it doesn’t need a four-colored label to make it go.” — George Horace Lorimer, Letters from a Self-Made Merchant to His Son
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My life, the most truthful one, is unrecognizable, extremely interior, and there is no single word that gives it meaning.” — Clarice Lispector, A hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star)
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“I only achieve simplicity with enormous effort.” — Clarice Lispector, A hora da Estrela (The Hour of the Star)
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