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Walden (1854)
“Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.”
Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862) 1817-1862 American poet, essayist, naturalist, and abolitionist
Variant: Our life is frittered away by detail. Simplify, simplify.
Source: Walden and Other Writings
“Lists simplify, clarify, edify.”
Tom Peters (1942) American writer on business management practices
Source: The Project 50 (Re-Inventing Work Series) (1999), p. 164.
“This… is an outrageously over-simplified account of the assumptions and procedures…”
Howard P. Robertson (1903–1961) American mathematician and physicist
Footnote
Geometry as a Branch of Physics (1949)
“We must clear away, simplify, eradicate.”
Alain (1868–1951) French philosopher
The Prophetic Soul
Alain On Happiness (1928)
William S. Burroughs (1914–1997) American novelist, short story writer, essayist, painter, and spoken word performer
"Letter from a Master Addict to Dangerous Drugs", written in 1956, first published in The British Journal of Addiction, Vol. 52, No. 2 (January 1957), p. 1 and later used as footnotes in Naked Lunch
“It's actually in simplifying life that you get the greatest strength.”
Steve Maraboli (1975)
Source: Life, the Truth, and Being Free (2010), p. 159
“Let's say the docs present a simplified view of reality…”
Larry Wall (1954) American computer programmer and author, creator of Perl
[6940@jpl-devvax.JPL.NASA.GOV, 1990]
Usenet postings, 1990
