I’m a big fan of all-you-can-eat plans, because they’re simpler for customers.

If you could take a subway from the suburbs in Boston, where I live, to downtown in 10 minutes, that improves your life over sitting in a traffic jam. People should see that.

The greatest progress is in the sciences that study the simplest systems. So take, say, physics – greatest progress there. But one of the reasons is that the physicists have an advantage that no other branch of sciences has. If something gets too complicated, they hand it to someone else.

Men are so simple and yield so readily to the desires of the moment that he who will trick will always find another who will suffer to be tricked.

The god whom science recognizes must be a God of universal laws exclusively, a God who does a wholesale, not a retail business. He cannot accommodate his processes to the convenience of individuals.

Simple goes a long way.

To me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.

The complexity of things – the things within things – just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple.

Me is a common sense man. That mean when me explain things, me explain it in a very simple way; that mean if I explain it to a baby, the baby will understand too, you know.

Issues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.

Simplicity is a key to avoiding complication. Part of the definition of simplicity is ‚not complex or complicated; sincere.‘

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober the posture, the more beautiful it will be.

Why a four-year-old child could understand this report. Run out and find me a four-year-old child. I can’t make head nor tail out of it.

A child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.

Men are so simple and so much inclined to obey immediate needs that a deceiver will never lack victims for his deceptions.

When the solution is simple, God is answering.

A man who is eating or lying with his wife or preparing to go to sleep in humility, thankfulness and temperance, is, by Christian standards, in an infinitely higher state than one who is listening to Bach or reading Plato in a state of pride.

The truth is rarely pure and never simple.

It is better for you to be free of fear lying upon a pallet, than to have a golden couch and a rich table and be full of trouble.

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple.

Some companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.

I don’t have people following me around, like bodyguards. I don’t know how people live like that. Maybe the young movie stars have to live like that, I don’t know. But it seems a little crazy to me. I don’t think you need all that stuff.

I love a natural look in pictures.

If you realize all the time what’s kind of wonderful – that is, if we expand our experience into wilder and wilder regions of experience – every once in a while, we have these integrations when everything’s pulled together into a unification, in which it turns out to be simpler than it looked before.

Expect nothing. Live frugally on surprise.

The obvious is that which is never seen until someone expresses it simply.

Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.

Short words are best and the old words when short are best of all.

The bourgeois prefers comfort to pleasure, convenience to liberty, and a pleasant temperature to the deathly inner consuming fire.

Truth is ever to be found in simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.

The shortest answer is doing the thing.

I think business has to be stupider. I want to do really straightforward, stupid business – just talk to me like a 4-year-old. And I refuse to negotiate. I do not negotiate. I can collaborate. But I’m an artist, so as soon as you negotiate, you’re being compromised.

I take a lot of pride in the work I do, because people pay to see me. They’ve got to get babysitters, park their car, get popcorn and candy. I’ve got to be conscious of that.

I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.

Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.

Elegance is refusal.

You just have to have a simple faith.

An intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.

They say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.

In terms of doing work and in terms of learning and evolving as a person, you just grow more when you get more people’s perspectives… I really try and live the mission of the company and… keep everything else in my life extremely simple.

There are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.

I always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.

The greatest wealth is to live content with little.

There is a certain majesty in simplicity which is far above all the quaintness of wit.

Grow in the root of all grace, which is faith. Believe God’s promises more firmly than ever. Allow your faith to increase in its fullness, firmness, and simplicity.

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

People don’t want lots and lots of single purpose devices. They do not want to have to learn how to set up something for photos, another thing for music, another thing for video.

That’s been one of my mantras – focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple. But it’s worth it in the end because once you get there, you can move mountains.

Your most unhappy customers are your greatest source of learning.

Part of the reason there’s an injunction to the truth, for example, is that if you’re in a circumstance of extreme uncertainty, your best weapon, let’s say, or your best tool or your best defense is the truth, because it keeps things simpler.

We have lost contact with reality, the simplicity of life.

It is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.

I have been known to buy e-versions of my books because I was in a hotel room and I needed one right away to look up something in it; very handy for that – you can have it just the next minute; you can press the button and just have it.

I felt like my favorite writers have almost musical hooks in their work, whether it’s poetry or a hook at the end of a chapter that makes you want to read the next one. And I think that my favorite writers definitely have something musical about what they do, in saying something so relatable and universal and so simple.

The wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.

I want to reform the tax code so that it’s simple, fair, and asks the wealthiest households to pay higher taxes on incomes over $250,000 – the same rate we had when Bill Clinton was president; the same rate we had when our economy created nearly 23 million new jobs, the biggest surplus in history, and a lot of millionaires to boot.

I bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.

Faith is easy; I think people complicate it.

Thoughts are the shadows of our feelings – always darker, emptier and simpler.

Human subtlety will never devise an invention more beautiful, more simple or more direct than does nature because in her inventions nothing is lacking, and nothing is superfluous.