David Karp Quotes

Less is more.

You can only do so many things great, and you should cast aside everything else.

Less is only more where more is no good.

Here's a vice: I say yes to too many things. I wish I had the guilty pleasure of saying no. My goal is to try to do less, but more fully.

I used to have this debate with Steve Jobs, and he would always say, 'You guys are doing too much stuff.' He did a good job of doing one or two things really well. We'd like to have a bigger impact on the world by doing more things.

The role of designers and product makers is to really become much better editors. What kind of functionality is actually needed - and truly delightful - to consumers? Remove all the extraneous stuff.

As I've gotten older, I've gotten simpler - my level of aspiration has actually gone down and down. But my level of impact has gone up and up.

Sometimes I think albums are so ambitious, they don't stand as bodies of work because you try to achieve so much, and sometimes we need to do less. Say less.

I really don't use that much stuff. I think it's good to know a few pieces of equipment very well, rather than learn new ones every time. I think it distracts from the writing process.

I love him who desireth not too many virtues. One virtue is more of a virtue than two, because it is more of a knot for one's destiny to cling to.

It's not about having it all. It's about having what you value most.

Keep the best, forget the rest.

We all think that the answer to everything is to add more and to do more and to try more. Sometimes you have to have the discipline to say no and to believe in the process that you have established.

Much better to do fewer things and have time to make the most of them.

God does not judge us by the multitude of works we perform, but how well we do the work that is ours to do. The happiness of too many days is often destroyed by trying to accomplish too much in one day. We would do well to follow a common rule for our daily lives--DO LESS, AND DO IT BETTER.

Luxury, to me, is not owning a lot of stuff. Luxury, to me, is feeling unrushed.

Make every detail perfect and limit the number of details to perfect.

Simplified living is about more than doing less. It’s being who God called us to be, with a wholehearted, single-minded focus.

The secret of the truly successful ... is that they learned early in life how not to be busy.

A man should remove not only unnecessary acts, but also unnecessary thoughts, for then superfluous activity will not follow.

I don't want to make decisions about what I'm eating or wearing. Because I have too many other decisions to make.

I mean just look at haiku, the idea of it. We want to focus on that singularity, on that simplicity, but we still want to add features and add value, but we want to do it in a way that fits in with that mentality of simplicity. You have to spend a lot of time thinking about it.

You live in the present and you eliminate things that don't matter. You don't carry the burden of the past.

People who don’t know how to summarize have no dignity. Neither do people who needlessly drag on their messy lives. They who don’t know the beauty of simplification, of pruning away the unnecessary, die without ever comprehending the true meaning of life.

See simplicity in the complicated. Achieve greatness in little things