Steve Jobs Quotes

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

No matter how complicated a problem is, it usually can be reduced to a simple, comprehensible form which is often the best solution.

Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable

My reaction to everything in life is when it gets a bit complicated to water it down and make it simple again.

Early on, in discussions of financial oversight, people would say, 'Well, this is a very complicated problem, therefore it requires a complicated solution.' And at that step, I would say, 'Well, wait a minute. Just because it's a complicated problem doesn't mean the best course of action immediately is one that's complicated.'

Every situation, no matter how complex it initially looks, is exceedingly simple.

When you first start off trying to solve a problem, the first solutions you come up with are very complex, and most people stop there. But if you keep going, and live with the problem and peel more layers of the onion off, you can often times arrive at some very elegant and simple solutions.

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

Complexity is the enemy of clarity

"Simple" is a tricky word, it can mean a lot of things. To us, it just means clear. That doesn't always mean total reduction, or minimalism - sometimes, to make things clearer, you have to add a step.

If our thinking is clear, how could work or money be the problem? Our thinking is all we need to change.

When you're first thinking through an idea, it's important not to get bogged down in complexity. Thinking simply and clearly is hard to do.

That's been one of my mantras - focus and simplicity. Simple can be harder than complex.

My natural tendency is to complicate everything--and then to spray words and ideas onto everything afterwards. I've had to develop the habit of keeping things simple.

It takes a lot of hard work to make something simple.

Forget the complaints against complexity; instead, complain about confusion.

The complexities of life situations are really not as complicated as we tend to experience them.

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

There is nothing like writing to force you to think and get your thoughts straight.

Any idiot can be complicated. It takes a genius to be simple.

Man must learn to simplify, but not to the point of falsification.

Most of what we say and do is unnecessary: remove the superfluity, and you will have more time and less bother. So in every case one should prompt oneself: 'Is this, or is it not, something necessary?' And the removal of the unnecessary should apply not only to actions but to thoughts also: then no redundant actions either will follow.

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

Simplicity is complexity resolved

This has been done elegantly by Minkowski; but chalk is cheaper than grey matter, and we will do it as it comes.