Larry Wall Quotes

Things that are ultimately complex must have a simple end user experience if they are to be successful.

Simplicity is hard to build, easy to use, and hard to charge for. Complexity is easy to build, hard to use, and easy to charge for.

Good technology is intuitive - the cellphone forces you to become an engineer.

Simple things should be simple and complex things should be possible.

Things that are complex are not useful, Things that are useful are simple.

There is beauty when something works and it works intuitively.

Any product that needs a manual to work is broken.

I think Google should be like a Swiss Army knife: clean, simple, the tool you want to take everywhere.

We've tried to simplify the site because some people found it too difficult to use and were intimidated by it.

I feel that it's lovely when, as a user, you're not aware of the complexity.

Complexity is your enemy. Any fool can make something complicated. It is hard to keep things simple.

The tool user, provided the tool is made well, need not, and indeed should not, know anything about the tool.

Making things easy is hard.

Complex things are easy to do. Simplicity's the real challenge.

Our goal is to try to bring a calm and simplicity to what are incredibly complex problems so that you're not aware really of the solution.

The most difficult in the world must be easy in its beginning.

I guess I don't believe these things can ever be easy, although I also don't see why they have to be hard.

What users want is convenience and results.

It's actually very difficult to make something both simple and good.

The hardest thing in the world is to simplify your life; it’s so easy to make it complex.

What we're starting to see is that the best apps tend to be the simplest, the easiest to use and the fastest to use.

Why bother with a cunning plan when a simple one will do?

You never do things the easy way, do you?" she said. "There's an easy way?" I asked.

O time, thou must untangle this, not I. It is too hard a knot for me t'untie.

Things are so easy to do, so hard to undo.