Quotes about simplicity

• "Simplicity boils down to two steps: Identify the essential. Eliminate the rest." – Leo Babauta^[3]
• "If you can't explain it to a six year old, you don't understand it yourself." – Albert Einstein^[4]
• "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." – Leonardo da Vinci^{[citation needed]} (Leonardo never wrote nor was reported to have said this.)
• "It is true intelligence for a man to take a subject that is mysterious and great in itself and to unfold and simplify it so that a child can understand it." – John H. Taylor
• "The Power of Simplicity." – Ken Segall
• "Simplicity is the key to brilliance." - Bruce Lee
• "The greatest ideas are the simplest." – William Golding^[5]
• "Simplicity is a competitive advantage." {Hubspot Company values}
• "Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity! I say, let your affairs be as two or three, and not a hundred or a thousand; instead of a million count half a dozen, and keep your accounts on your thumb nail." – Henry David Thoreau^[6]
• "Simplicity [is] the art of maximizing the amount of work not done" - Agile Manifesto^[7]
• "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." -Frédéric Chopin^[8]
• "A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away." -Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity