John Maeda Simplicity Quotes & Sayings

Those are big collisions, Hally. They make for a lot of bruises. People get hurt in all that bumping, and we're sick and tired of it now. It's been going on for too long. Are we never going to get it right? ... Learn to dance life like champions instead of always being just a bunch of beginners at it? — Athol Fugard

The definition of a great picture is one that stays with you, one that you can't forget. It doesn't have to be technically good at all. — Steve McCurry

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction. — John Maeda

Simplicity and complexity need each other. — John Maeda

Knowledge is comfort, and comfort lies at the heart of simplicity. — John Maeda

If you only believe when it's easy, you don't really believe. — Laurell K. Hamilton

preserving the essence, in fact the breath - when it opened, his museum displayed Thomas Edison's last exhalation, captured by his son in a test tube at Ford's request - of a more durable American experience. — Greg Grandin

I have to approach my life in this way so I can do what I need to do, and do it very well. — Debra Wilson

Some are born with knowledge, some derive it from study, and some acquire it only after a painful realization of their ignorance.
But the knowledge being possessed, it comes to the same thing.
Some study with a natural ease, some from a desire for advantages, and some by strenuous effort.
But the achievement being made, it comes to the same thing. — Confucius

Shall I bring you some beer, while you take care of the horse?" "A good wife is prized above rubies," he said, smiling. "Come to me, mo nighean donn." He reached out a long arm and drew me in, holding me close against him. I put my arms around him and felt the quiver of his muscles, exhausted, and the sheer hard strength still in him, that would hold him up, no matter how tired he might be. We stood quite still for some time, my cheek against his chest and his face against my hair, drawing strength from each other for whatever might come. Being married. — Diana Gabaldon

Alone let him constantly meditate in solitude on that which is salutary for his soul, for he who meditates in solitude attains supreme bliss. — Guru Nanak

I think the world is ready for people of color to take on more heroic and leading roles, and not always be the sidekick, the nemesis or any sort of stereotype of what a person of color can play typically in a Hollywood picture. — Jessica Alba

What's wrong with people?" she says, almost too quiet for me to hear. "Were they born with parts missing or did it fall out somewhere along the way? — Isaac Marion

It is possible that our race may be an accident, in a meaningless universe, living its brief life uncared-for, on this dark, cooling star: but even so
and all the more
what marvelous creatures we are! What fairy story, what tale from the Arabian Nights of the jinns, is a hundredth part as wonderful as this true fairy story of simians! It is so much more heartening, too, than the tales we invent. A universe capable of giving birth to many such accidents is
blind or not
a good world to live in, a promising universe. — Clarence Day Jr.

Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. — John Maeda

Apple products aren't simple technologies by any stretch, but there is a beautiful simplicity to them. — John Maeda

I've made movies that we're very successful that we're a complete surprise, and I've made movies that I thought we're going to be very successful that, you know. — Christopher Walken

I have a confession: I'm not a man of simplicity. I spent my entire early career making complex stuff. Lots of complex stuff. — John Maeda

So, how close are love and genius, really? We know that they are both mentioned far more than lived. — Criss Jami