Less is More

Less is more.

Coined by Robert Browning and popularized by the German-born American architect Ludwig Mies van der Rohe, nothing could be further from the literal truth. But when people use this expression, they’re not speaking logically, they’re using self-contradictory phrasing to describe an important principle—keeping things simple and avoiding unnecessary detail often improves things. Yes, one could say “Simpler is…