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"I have much respect for the people that I work with, and it's reciprocal. My shoots are always very calm. Everyone has their work to do, and we try to respect everyone's work and give them the time necessary. There's never any tension. That's something that helps to attain the simplicity that I'm looking for."
"I work very hard to achieve simplicity, which is never natural, never spontaneous. It's always obtained at the price of a great effort."
"Simplicity is always a virtue."
"The sweet simplicity of the three percents."
"I am completely attracted to the idea of simplicity, or at least removing things that seem unnecessary when trying to get an idea out there."
"The future of computer power is pure simplicity."
"The more intimately you come in contact with your own Being, the simpler things look and the easier they are to deal with."
"Physics, owing to the simplicity of its subject matter, has reached a higher state of development than any other science."
"Nature doesn't see things through the prism of good or bad. It rewards efficiency. That is the simplicity of evolution, matching design to environment."
"Simplicity is simple. Perhaps this sounds redundant. But it's true, and it's important."
"I think having simplicity doesn't always mean that you make a good movie. I have a theory that a movie that's easy to make is hard to watch."
"Out of the clutter find Simplicity"
"...the only simplicity to be trusted is the simplicity to be found on the far side of complexity."
"The aim of science is to seek the simplest explanation of complex facts... Seek simplicity and distrust it."
"Seek simplicity, then distrust."
"Thomas Teal, a luminous translator of Jansson's twin talent for surface and depth, simplicity and reverberation in language, and someone who knows exactly how to convey her gift for sensing the meaning embedded in the most mundane act or turn of phrase."
"I believe that one of the great pleasures that we derive from voyaging is that of independence, and we have found that the best guarantee of that independence comes from simplicity."
"It is not really difficult to construct a series of inferences, each dependent upon its predecessor and each simple in itself. If, after doing so, one simply knocks out all the central inferences and presents one's audience with the starting-point and the conclusion, one may produce a startling, though perhaps a meretricious, effect."
"I am as true as truth's simplicity, And simpler than the infancy of truth."
"Love, therefore, and tongue-tied simplicity In least speak most, to my capacity."
