- Every thing should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler – Einstein
- Seek Simplicity and distrust it – Alfred N. Whitehead
- Our life is frittered away by details. Simplicity, simplicity, simplicity – Henry D. Thoreau
- There are no small change in a large system – unknown
- KISS: Keep It Simple, Stupid (or Keep It Simple as Stupid) - unknown
- Fools ignore complexity, pragmatic suffer it, some avoid it, genius remove it – Alan J Perlier
From Foundation of Computer Science
A one I like: "If something must go wrong, it’ll go wrong" – Murphy’s laws
and one from an ex-boss : "A programmer must think to unthinkable" – Willy Kalamba