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.
Margaret AtwoodThere is always another way to say the same thing that doesn’t look at all like the way you said it before. I don’t know what the reason for this is. I think it is somehow a representation of the simplicity of nature.
Richard P. FeynmanThere are no easy answers, but there are simple answers. We must have the courage to do what we know is morally right.
Ronald ReaganAn intellectual says a simple thing in a hard way. An artist says a hard thing in a simple way.
Charles BukowskiIt is the eye of other people that ruin us. If I were blind I would want, neither fine clothes, fine houses or fine furniture.
Benjamin FranklinThere is nothing so strong or safe in an emergency of life as the simple truth.
Charles DickensI don’t argue when people say that my message is simple, but I believe Jesus‘ message was simple. Jesus didn’t go around condemning people.
Joel OsteenOf my mental cycles, I devote maybe ten percent to business thinking. Business isn’t that complicated. I wouldn’t want to put it on my business card.
Bill GatesI don’t let my religious world get too complicated.
BonoIssues are never simple. One thing I’m proud of is that very rarely will you hear me simplify the issues.
Barack ObamaMy religion is very simple. My religion is kindness.
Dalai LamaWe see our customers as invited guests to a party, and we are the hosts. It’s our job every day to make every important aspect of the customer experience a little bit better.
Jeff BezosSo convenient a thing it is to be a reasonable creature, since it enables one to find or make a reason for every thing one has a mind to do.
Benjamin FranklinThat man is rich whose pleasures are the cheapest.
Henry David ThoreauOur life is frittered away by detail… simplify, simplify.
Henry David ThoreauSome sarcasm is best told simply.
Kevin HartFaith is easy; I think people complicate it.
Joel OsteenPart 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.
Jordan PetersonMicrosoft Research has a thing called the Sense Cam that, as you walk around, it’s taking photos all the time. And the software will filter and find the ones that are interesting without having to think, ‚Let’s get out the camera and get that shot.‘ You just have that, and software helps you pick what you want.
Bill GatesI try to speak plainly so that my constituents who don’t follow the nuances of government like I do, because they’re too busy earning a real living, can understand the issues before me. None of this stuff is brain surgery.
John KennedyThis is my simple religion. There is no need for temples; no need for complicated philosophy. Our own brain, our own heart is our temple; the philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaDon’t use words too big for the subject. Don’t say ‚infinitely‘ when you mean ‚very‘; otherwise you’ll have no word left when you want to talk about something really infinite.
C. S. LewisThe last suit that you wear, you don’t need any pockets.
Wayne DyerDo not trouble yourself much to get new things, whether clothes or friends… Sell your clothes and keep your thoughts.
Henry David ThoreauI describe myself as a simple Buddhist monk. No more, no less.
Dalai LamaIt 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.
EpicurusAll the great things are simple, and many can be expressed in a single word: freedom, justice, honor, duty, mercy, hope.
Winston ChurchillI bought some instant water one time but I didn’t know what to add to it.
Steven WrightOf Manners gentle, of Affections mild; In Wit a man; Simplicity, a child.
Alexander PopeThere are things around, and I know where they can be got quite easily, but I quite like waking up to the sunshine.
Terry PratchettTo me a lush carpet of pine needles or spongy grass is more welcome than the most luxurious Persian rug.
Helen KellerA child of five would understand this. Send someone to fetch a child of five.
Groucho MarxMen 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.
Niccolo MachiavelliIt’s easier to add things on to a PC than it’s ever been before. It’s one click, and boom, it comes down.
Bill GatesI do everything on my phone as a lot of people do.
Mark ZuckerbergI always think the everyday is more relevant than anything too grand because we all have to deal with it.
David ByrneMy understanding of the Scriptures has been made simple by the person of Christ.
BonoI don’t think people are going to switch over to bikes because it’s good for them or because it’s politically correct. They’re going to do it because it gets them from A to B faster.
David ByrneThe wind can be quite extreme in England. We are not familiar with that in Germany, and you have to keep things simple.
Jurgen KloppEverything in war is very simple. But the simplest thing is difficult.
Carl von ClausewitzWho bothers to cook TV dinners? I suck them frozen.
Woody AllenSome companies out there quote a start of production that is substantially in advance of when customers get their cars.
Elon MuskI am a simple Buddhist monk – no more, no less.
Dalai LamaThey say the world has become too complex for simple answers. They are wrong.
Ronald ReaganWhen the solution is simple, God is answering.
Albert EinsteinSimplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man.
Henry AdamsBetter understated than overstated. Let people be surprised that it was more than you promised and easier than you said.
Jim RohnIf you do build a great experience, customers tell each other about that. Word of mouth is very powerful.
Jeff BezosI 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.
Barack ObamaThere is no need for temples, no need for complicated philosophies. My brain and my heart are my temples; my philosophy is kindness.
Dalai LamaGenius might be the ability to say a profound thing in a simple way.
Charles BukowskiAll truth is simple… is that not doubly a lie?
Friedrich NietzscheI spend a lot of time just, you know, with my girlfriend and my dog. And I mean, we don’t have a lot of furniture in our house, so it’s really simple. And we’re trying to build products for everyone in the world, right. And you don’t want to get isolated to do that.
Mark ZuckerbergBehold the child, by Nature’s kindly law pleased with a rattle, tickled with a straw.
Alexander PopeI don’t really have any gimmicks. I don’t actually do anything that’s strange. I don’t even wear weird things.
Lana Del ReyI 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.
Kanye WestIt is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and easy execution in the proper place, than to expand both indiscriminately.
John RuskinEverything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
Albert EinsteinEverything deep is also simple and can be reproduced simply as long as its reference to the whole truth is maintained. But what matters is not what is witty but what is true.
Albert SchweitzerMy aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.
Ernest Hemingway