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• As an artist, I’d like to say that I wrote this book for myself in the spirit of climbing a mountain “because it’s there.”
• 4 LEARN Knowledge makes everything simpler. 5 DIFFERENCES Simplicity and complexity need each other. 6 CONTEXT What lies in the periphery of simplicity is definitely not peripheral. 7 EMOTION More emotions are better than less. 8 TRUST In simplicity we trust. 9 FAILURE Some things can never be made simple. 10 THE ONE Simplicity is about subtracting...
• see the forest from the trees—to find the right balance. Squint at the world. You will see more, by seeing less.
• Widespread calls for simplicity formed a trend that was inevitable, given the structure of the technology business around selling the same thing "new and improved" where often "improved" simply means more. Imagine a world in which software companies simplified their programs every year by shipping with 10% fewer features at 10% higher cost due to t...
• Achieving simplicity in the digital age became a personal mission, and a focus of my research at MIT. There,