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.

Simple ideas lie within the reach only of complex minds.

The noble simplicity in the works of nature only too often originates in the noble shortsightedness of him who observes it.

Nothing is true, but that which is simple.

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

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.