Intelligent Quotes

“The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity.”

“You can either buy clothes or buy pictures,” she said. “It’s that simple. No one who is not very rich can do both. Pay no attention to your clothes and no attention at all to the mode, and buy your clothes for comfort and durability, and you will have the clothes money to buy pictures.”

“A theory is the more impressive the greater the simplicity of its premises is, the more different kinds of things it relates, and the more extended is its area of applicability.”

“Above all, I did not allow anything to be done which I did not myself understand. It worked!”

“I was eventually persuaded of the need to design programming notations so as to maximize the number of errors which cannot be made, or if made, can be reliably detected at compile time.”

“A crude measure of the simplicity of an engineering tool is the length of the manual required to give a full and complete account of how to use it and avoid misusing it.”

“We ascribe beauty to that which is simple; which has no superfluous parts; which exactly answers its ends; which stands related to all things; which is the mean of many extremes. It is the most enduring quality and the most ascending quality.”

“Inside every large program is a small program struggling to get out.”

“Take a simple idea and take it seriously.”

“Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler.”

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”