Steve Jobs Quotes

Making the complicated simple is true creativity.

Anybody can make the simple complecated. Creativity is making the complecated simple.

The problem is that we attempt to solve the simplest questions cleverly, thereby rendering them unusually complex. One should seekthe simple solution.

If simple, painless solutions to public problems existed, they would have been found long ago.

Life-complication Theory: Given a choice between an easy solution and a complicated one, the loser will usually opt to travel the complicated path. Don't ignore a solution just because it's simple!

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

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.

Intelligence is: (a) the most complex phenomenon in the Universe; or (b) a profoundly simple process. The answer, of course, is (c) both of the above. It's another one of those great dualities that make life interesting.

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right.

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

Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.

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.

It's really complex to make something simple.

He [John von Neumann] had the invaluable faculty of being able to take the most difficult problem and separate it into its components, whereupon everything looked brlliantly simple.

A difficulty for every solution.

To every problem, there is a most simple solution.

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult.

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

There is nothing easier than lopping off heads and nothing harder than developing ideas.

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

"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.

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

Our agenda, by necessity, is as complex and encompassing as the problems we face: beware of politicians promising simple solutions.

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.

To complicate things in new ways, that is really very easy; but to see things in new ways, that is difficult and that is why genius is so rare.