Out of all virtues simplicity is my most favourite virtue. So much so that I tend to believe that simplicity can solve most of the problems, personal as well as the world problems . If the life approach is simple one need not lie so frequently, nor quarrel nor steal, nor envy, anger, abuse, kill. Everyone will have enough and plenty so need not hoard, speculate, gamble, hate. When character is beautiful, you are beautiful. That is the beauty of simplicity.

— Ela Bhatt

If the human brain were so simple that we could understand it, we would be so simple that we couldn’t.

— Emerson M. Pugh

(after reading this)

Education is, quite simply, peace-building by another name. It is the most effective form of defence spending there is.

— Kofi Annan

Please imagine I wrote a beautiful cover letter below, gushing over Python and related technologies, and somesuch. Otherwise, it's Sunday, I want to get back to my girls, and my hands are freezing.

— me, looking for a contract

The smallest thing I can think of is not an atom, a quark, nor a lepton. It is my mind, amongst all the great men and women who came before me.

— an acceptance speech I made in a dream some time in August

The combination of hatred and technology is the greatest danger threatening mankind.

— Simon Wiesenthal

He who suffers before it is necessary suffers more than is necessary.

– Seneca