Theodore Sturgeon Quotes

Never do anything complicated when something simple will serve as well. It's one of the most important secrets of living.

Do something real, and keep it simple.

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

I think something that's very important for us to communicate is usually very simple. Like breathing: Breathing is very simple. You don't do a dissonant 9th harmony or something in breathing. You just breathe, you know. I think that's how it is with very important messages.

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

Nothing is more simple than greatness; indeed, to be simple is to be great.

All the great things are simple.

I always go for simplicity.

I believe in the simple things in life; everything derives from the beginning. You take things very simplistically and try to be the best person you can be.

Simple goes a long way.

Simple things are always the most difficult.

The simplest way to achieve simplicity is through thoughtful reduction.

Simple truths are a relief from grand speculations.

Above all, keep it simple.

To be simple is no small matter.

It is far more difficult to be simple than to be complicated.

..things are never as complicated as they seem. It is only our arrogance that prompts us to find unnecessarily complicated answers to simple problems.

We have a passion for keeping things simple.

Quite apart from the prestige of technology, people do, after all, prefer a simple idea to a complex one.

In mathematics the complicated things are reduced to simple things. So it is in painting.

Never overlook the power of simplicity.

Keep it simple, when you get too complex you forget the obvious.

Too many escape into complexity these days. For it is an escape for persons to cry, when this question of the equality of peoples is raised in India or in our own South, 'Ah, but the situation is not so simple.' ... no great stride forward is ever made for the individual or for the human race unless the complex situation is reduced to one simple question and its simple answer.

I've spent my life trying to make things simpler. Because I find ultimately that complicated doesn't reach the heart.

That's what we're all sort of trying to do in our lives - to make the simplest things work out the best.