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Good design is as little as possible. Less, but better, because it concentrates on the essential aspects, and the products are not burdened with non-essentials. Back to purity, back to simplicity.
Dieter Rams ·

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“I once said that my aim is to leave out everything superfluous in order to allow the essential to come through.”

Dieter Rams · Less but better, 1995 · Primary source

“Don't throw stones at your neighbors, if your own windows are glass.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“It is better to take many injuries, than to give one.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“Take this remark from Richard, poor and lame, whatever is begun in anger, ends in shame.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“’'Tis easier to suppress the first desire, than to satisfy all that follow it.”

Benjamin Franklin · Poor Richard’s Almanack, 1732-1758 · Primary source

“This wine is too good for toast-drinking, my dear. You don’t want to mix emotions up with a wine like that. You lose the taste.”

Ernest Hemingway · The Sun Also Rises, 1926 · Primary source

“Speak softly and carry a big stick; you will go far.”

Theodore Roosevelt · Letter to Henry L. Sprague, 1900 · Primary source

“You don’t need to take the last dollar.”

Charlie Munger · Poor Charlie’s Almanack, 2005 · Primary source

“When angry, count ten, before you speak; if very angry, an hundred.”

Thomas Jefferson · Letter to Thomas Jefferson Smith, 1825 · Primary source

“My aim was to design [door] handles that were as simple as possible. Our living environment today is complex and polymorphic enough. I have always striven to couteract this chaos.”

Dieter Rams · Less but better, 1995 · Primary source

“Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”

Leonardo da Vinci · No reliable source

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