Simplicity is the glory of expression.

It’s really complex to make something simple. I’ve always been fascinated by cities and how they work. And I taught myself how to program so I can understand how the city works.

We must learn to differentiate clearly the fundamentally important, that which is really basic, from that which is dispensable, and to turn aside from everything else, from the multitude of things which clutter up the mind and divert it from the essential.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated; far more difficult to sacrifice skill and cease exertion in the proper place, than to expend both indiscriminately.

It the proof of high culture to say the greatest matters in the simplest way.

Intellectual comradeship requires that you think your thoughts through to the place where you can make the complex seem simple, the obscure quite clear.

The complex develops out of the simple.

It’s not the daily increase but daily decrease. Hack away at the unessential.

My aim is to put down on paper what I see and what I feel in the best and simplest way.

Behind the complicated details of the world stand the simplicities: God is good, the grown-up man or woman knows the answer to every question, there is such a thing as truth, and justice is as measured and faultless as a clock. Our heroes are simple: they are brave, they tell the truth, they are good