steve jobs quote on simplicity - Google Search
Atop the brochure McKenna put a maxim, often attributed to Leonardo da Vinci, that would become the defining precept of Jobs’s design philosophy: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Walter Isaacson • Steve Jobs
Anybody can make the simple complicated. Creativity is making the complicated simple. Charles Mingus
Rhiannon Beaubien • The Great Mental Models Volume 1: General Thinking Concepts
Simplicity is difficult because most of us are overcompensating for uncertainty. It takes a deep understanding of beauty and emotional awareness to look at something, long before most people would say it is complete, and say “This is enough.”
Alice Otieno • #057 IRL <> URL
“Beginner = ignorant simplicity
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”
Intermediate = functional complexity
Advanced = profound simplicity”