But given it's so simple, it is also one of the easiest to mess up.

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Mr. GILD: It's so simple that anyone can do it.

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Try running, because it's so beautifully simple.

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It doesn't look like he's going to be fit so it's nice and simple.

BBC: Injured keeper Allan McGregor omitted from Scots squad

Because the militias have become so ingrained in the political fabric of contemporary Iraq, it's not going to be so simple as to just say, okay, put down your weapons.

NPR: Top Muslim Cleric Urges Militias to Disarm

Watching such a brother of mine, I would think: How come it's so hard for him to answer simple questions in a normal situation, but he turns so voluble when it comes to stones?

NPR: 'A Tale of Music': From 'Literature from the Axis of Evil'

It sounds simple, but it's so easy to forget.

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It's simple for technicians to suggest changes, so manuals consistently get better over time.

ENGADGET: iFixit intros Dozuki, promises 'service manuals that don't suck'

Okay, so design-wise, it's pretty simple.

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You've got the challenge there with rights management of making it so that creators get paid and it's simple to use.

ENGADGET: A lunchtime chat with Bill Gates at CES

It seems so simple on the surface, but it's not.

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So, Aderholt told the president that it's simple.

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Transmeta's approach seems, in contrast, so simple that it is surprising that nobody thought of it before.

ECONOMIST: Transmetamorphosis

Well, that might not have been so simple: it is harder to divide up Microsoft's Windows assets than merely splitting them from the applications business.

ECONOMIST: Divide and rule

But those messages that it's good for you get drowned out sometimes, and they're so simple and they're so unsexy that there isn't a lot of appeal.

NPR: Confronting Misconceptions About Cancer Prevention

All that mining and trucking rock around was expensive, even though the basic idea, heating the rock, has always been very simple, so simple that you can even do it at home, as NPR's technology reporter Nell Boyce explains.

NPR: Industry Seeks to Extract Oil from Rocky Mountain Shale

So it's exciting to have Sargent show us the ranges of white in a simple stucco house in Corfu (1909) and the tower of Venice's Dogana (1911), as well as in garden sculptures in Florence and lots of water views.

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Mr Ebner's simple point is that Investor will not be a true public company so long as it is controlled by the Wallenbergs.

ECONOMIST: Martin Ebner versus the Wallenbergs

Our men and women in uniform and their families sacrifice for us, every single one of us, so every single one of us can do something in return, even if it's something as simple as saying thank you.

WHITEHOUSE: The First Lady Announces New Funding for Military Families

Amazon's star has risen so fast (its sales have doubled each quarter) for the simple reason that it usually offers a good service.

ECONOMIST: On-line retailing