“The definition of genius is taking the complex and making it simple.” ― Albert Einstein
“Truth is ever to be found in the simplicity, and not in the multiplicity and confusion of things.” ― Isaac Newton
“Life is really simple, but we insist on making it complicated.” ― Confucius
“Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depend on simplicity.” — Plato
"Simple can be harder than complex, you have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple" — Steve Jobs
“Simplicity is the final achievement. After one has played a vast quantity of notes and more notes, it is simplicity that emerges as the crowning reward of art.” — Frederic Chopin
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Peter Hugh
I agree with your sentiment. As another who has read Eastern philosophy and grew up in a "simple" lifestyle, it is amazing how refreshing simplicity can be and how it can allow for creative and intellectual juices to flow unconstrained by the dictates that a more complex ecosystem demands. One might say that it takes a higher intelligence (and self security) to fully appreciate simplicity and it's holistic value.
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Palmer Hafdahl, AIA
I am reminded of Robert Frost's: “We dance round in a ring and suppose, But the Secret sits in the middle and knows.”
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