“I like a thing simple but it must be simple through complication. Everything must come into your scheme, otherwise you cannot achieve real simplicity.”
What Are Masterpieces and Why Are There So Few of Them (1936), Afterword of a later edition
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John Clive Ward (1924–2000) British-Australian nuclear physicist
As quoted in [F. J. Duarte, Laser Physicist, Optics Journal, 2012, 978-0-9760383-1-3, 63]
“The truth is too simple: one must always get there by a complicated route.”
George Sand (1804–1876) French novelist and memoirist; pseudonym of Lucile Aurore Dupin
Le vrai est trop simple, il faut y arriver toujours par le compliqué.
Letter to Armand Barbès, (12 May 1867), published in Georges Lubin (ed.) Correspondance (Paris: Garnier Freres, 1964-95) vol. 20, p. 412; Bruce Kajewski Traveling with Hermes (Amherst: University of Massachusetts Press, 1992) p. 32
Marina Warner (1946) writer and mythographer
Joan of Arc (Harmondsworth, Penguin, [1981] 1983) p. 263.
Jonathan Ive (1967) English designer and VP of Design at Apple
On the design of the Apple Cinema Display http://www.apple.com/displays/, in an article by Leander Kahney in Wired News magazine (June 2003)
“Everything must be made as simple as possible. But not simpler.”
Albert Einstein (1879–1955) German-born physicist and founder of the theory of relativity
Variant: Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
“I want to be with you. It's as simple, and as complicated as that.”
Charles Bukowski (1920–1994) American writer