“I once said that my aim is to leave out everything superfluous in order to allow the essential to come through.”
— Dieter Rams Primary source“Every morning was a cheerful invitation to make my life of equal simplicity, and I may say innocence, with Nature herself.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“Colour was always used extremely sparingly [in Braun hi-fi appliances] and then only to provide information.”
— Dieter Rams Primary source“You’ll be happier if you reduce your expectations than if you try and satisfy them.”
— Charlie Munger Primary source“We ate well and cheaply and drank well and cheaply and slept well and warm together and loved each other.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“But life isn’t hard to manage when you’ve nothing to lose.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“This was omitted on my new theory that you could omit anything if you knew that you omitted and the omitted part would strengthen the story and make people feel something more than they understood.”
— Ernest Hemingway Primary source“In proportion as he simplifies his life, the laws of the universe will appear less complex, and solitude will not be solitude, nor poverty poverty, nor weakness weakness.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“My aim was to design [door] handles that were as simple as possible. Our living environment today is complex and polymorphic enough. I have always striven to couteract this chaos.”
— Dieter Rams Primary source“For my greatest skill has been to want but little.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“I had three chairs in my house; one for solitude, two for friendship, three for society.”
— Henry David Thoreau Primary source“He who possesses most must be most afraid of loss.”
— Leonardo da Vinci Primary sourceSimplicity Design Lose Writing Story