1. Do simple things first.
2. Learn to do them flawlessly.
3. Add new layers of activity over the results of the simple tasks.
4. Don’t change the simple things.
5. Make the new layer work as flawlessly as the simple.
6. Repeat, ad infinitum.
–MIT’s recipe for devising a system of distributed control

Great things are not done by impulse but by a series of small things brought together.
–Vincent Van Gogh

The wise will always reflect on the quality, not the quantity, of life.
–Seneca

The secret of getting ahead is getting started.  The secret of getting started is breaking your complex overwhelming tasks into small manageable tasks, and then starting on the first one.
–Mark Twain

Our life is frittered away by detail . . . Simplify, simplify!
–Thoreau

In character, in manner, in style—in all things the supreme excellence is simplicity.
–Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

Who begins too much accomplishes little.
–German proverb

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler.
–Albert Einstein

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