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In the third quarter of the 19th century, they became simpler and softer, usually fabric embroidered with a simple pattern in wool or silk. [ 2 ] By the beginning of the 20th century, antimacassars had become so associated in people's minds with the Victorian period that the word briefly became a figurative term for it.
Bjarne Stroustrup's "Make Simple Tasks Simple!"; Dr. Seuss's ode to brevity: "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads"; Johan Cruyff's "Playing football is very simple but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is";
Prior to the 20th century, it was a commonly held belief that nature itself was simple and that simpler hypotheses about nature were thus more likely to be true. This notion was deeply rooted in the aesthetic value that simplicity holds for human thought and the justifications presented for it often drew from theology .
A number of religious and spiritual traditions encourage simple living. [6] Early examples include the Śramaṇa traditions of Iron Age India and biblical Nazirites.More formal traditions of simple living stretch back to antiquity, originating with religious and philosophical leaders such as Jesus, Lao Tzu, Confucius, Zarathustra, Gautama Buddha, and Prophet Muhammad.
Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple. Something easy to understand or explain seems simple, in contrast to something complicated. Alternatively, as Herbert A. Simon suggests, something is simple or complex depending on the way we choose to describe it. [1] In some uses, the label "simplicity" can imply beauty, purity, or clarity ...
In social behavior, downshifting is a trend where individuals adopt simpler lives from what critics call the "rat race". The long-term effect of downshifting can include an escape from what has been described as economic materialism, as well as reduce the "stress and psychological expense that may accompany economic materialism". This new ...
Simple (abstract algebra), an algebraic structure which cannot be divided; Simple (botany), a leaf with only a single vein; SIMPLE (dark matter experiment) SIMPLE (instant messaging protocol) SIMPLE (military communications protocol), defined by NATO; Simple (pharmacology), a herbal remedy; SiMPLE, a computer programming development system
The epithet "the Simple" may refer to: Abraham the Poor or the Simple (died 372), Egyptian hermit and saint; Bagrat II of Iberia (937–994), King of (Caucasian) Iberia; Charles the Simple (879-929), King of France; Frederick the Simple (1341-1377), King of Sicily; Paul the Simple (died c. 339), Christian saint, monk and hermit