“If there’s a simple, easy design principle that binds everything together, it’s probably about starting with the people.”

They’re partners in a big house where there are two separate courts, and they both know they have two separate courts. But these are courts that are allied in purpose, united in vision.

I don’t think that anyone has really told (people) what design is. It doesn’t occur to most people that everything is designed–that every building and everything they touch in the world is designed.

Few people think about this or are aware of it. But there is nothing made by human beings that does not involve a design decision somewhere.

Enjoy the simple, the natural and the plain. Along with that comes the ability to do things spontaneously and have them work.

The thing that I have been emphasizing in my own work for the last few years has been the group approach. To try to buy groups of stocks that meet some simple criterion for being undervalued-regardless of the industry and with very little attention to the individual company.

The law is simple. Every experience is repeated or suffered till you experience it properly and fully the first time.

A formula can be very simple, and create a universe of bottomless complexity.

In mathematics and science definition are simple, but bare-bones. Until you get to a problem which you understand it takes hundreds and hundreds of pages and years and years of learning.

God is utterly simple; for every composite being necessarily has a cause of its own composition, and so, since God is the first principle of all things, there can be no real composition whatever in God.

If this seems complex, the reason is because Tao is both simple and complex. It is complex when we try to understand it, and simple when we allow ourselves to experience it.

Superstition is the need to view the world in terms of simple cause and effect.