#simple

I was fired from my television job, simple as that. Well, downsized, really, a classic 1990s situation. ↗

— Lee Child

#fired #i #job #really #simple

The simplest schoolboy is now familiar with truths for which Archimedes would have sacrificed his life. ↗

— Ernest Renan

#archimedes #familiar #his #life #now

UNIX is basically a simple operating system, but you have to be a genius to understand the simplicity. ↗

— Dennis Ritchie

#genius #operating #operating system #simple #simplicity

No architecture is so haughty as that which is simple. ↗

— John Ruskin

#haughty #simple #which

But at some point, we've got to have disciplined play and have got to coach better. I'm not putting it on the players. We've got to coach them to tackle and block better. It's as simple as that. If we can do those things, we'll have a chance. ↗

— Steve Spurrier

#block #chance #coach #disciplined #got

Simple people have much to offer. We, too, in return, must give to them to the best of our abilities. We must, with all our heart, try to help them acquire what they truly deserve. ↗

— Simin Daneshvar

#best #deserve #give #heart #help

It's a matter of reducing the work to its very simplest possible state, eliminating all of the things that lead away from the guts of the work, the thing the work is really about. Anything that's there must build towards its over-all organization and meaning. ↗

— Paul Cullen

#anything #away #build #eliminating #guts

The hard thing about death is that nothing ever changes. The hard thing about life is that nothing stays the same. ↗

— Sue Grafton

#change

No problem can be solved until it is reduced to some simple form. The changing of a vague difficulty into a specific, concrete form is a very essential element in thinking. ↗

— J. P. Morgan

#concrete #difficulty #element #essential #form

The most important American addition to the World Experience was the simple surprising fact of America. We have helped prepare mankind for all its later surprises. ↗

— Daniel J. Boorstin

#america #american #experience #fact #helped