E. F. Schumacher Quote

It is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity. Any third-rate engineer or researcher can increase complexity; but it takes a certain flair of real insight to make things simple again.


Small Is Beautiful, Part II, Chapter 5 (p. 146), Harper & Row, Publishers. 1973


It is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity. Any...

It is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity. Any...

It is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity. Any...

It is rather more difficult to recapture directness and simplicity than to advance in the direction of ever more sophistication and complexity. Any...