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Elegance Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
- Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work…
- Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.
- How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but…
- The traditional mathematician recognizes and appreciates mathematical elegance when he sees it. I propose to go one step further, and to consider elegance an essential…
More Elegance Quotes
- What is elegance? Soap and water! — Cecil Beaton
- I know that Brighton is famously a mixture of the seedy and the elegant, but in the summer of 2001 seediness swamped… — Julie Burchill
- Some people think luxury is the opposite of poverty. It is not. It is the opposite of vulgarity. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of… — Coco Chanel
- Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. — Coco Chanel
- Luxury must be comfortable, otherwise it is not luxury. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is refusal. — Coco Chanel
- Elegance is elimination. — Cristobal Balenciaga
- Elegance is not standing out, but being remembered. — Giorgio Armani
- Fashion anticipates, and elegance is a state of mind ... a mirror of the time in which we live, a translation of… — Oleg Cassini
- Simplicity, carried to an an extreme, becomes elegance. — Jon Franklin
- Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. — Edsger Dijkstra