"Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity!"

-- Henry David Thoreau

#Simplicity Quotes

“Most electronic equipment uses the principle of amplification. You need filters, modulators and mixing equipment which have gain stages. By piling these components up, I was able to work without any sound generators and I made several pieces in that manner.”
“You learn just by trying and experimenting. By the time I was 14, I had my own comic strip in the Kansas City paper.”
“Knowledge of the natural world and how it works should be counted as fundamental to informed governance. You can't have a functioning democracy, if the electorate is under-informed or, worse, mis-informed.”
“The big nut to crack is to how to tell a story, whatâ€™s the right way to tell a particular story.”
“Human beings are works in progress that mistakenly think they're finished.”
“Young people, who are still uncertain of their identity, often try on a succession of masks in the hope of finding the one which suits them -- the one, in fact, which is not a mask.”

Source : "Forewords and Afterwords" by W. H. Auden, ("One of the Family"), (p. 369), 1973.
“If somebody writes a great poem, people don't run around applauding the pencil, saying 'Oh, what a great pencil'...I'm a pencil in God's hands.”
“Everyone is trying to jump on the biomimic bandwagon. But a cork floor is not biomimicry. Neither is using bacteria to clean water.”

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