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Simplicity Quotes by Edsger Dijkstra
- The purpose of abstraction is not to be vague, but to create a new semantic level in which one can be absolutely precise.
- Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells…
- 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…
- Simplicity is prerequisite for reliability.
More Simplicity Quotes
- The simplest things are often the truest. — Richard Bach
- All works of art are commissioned in the sense that no artist can create one by a simple act of will but… — Wystan Hugh Auden
- Our life is what our thoughts make it. — Marcus Aurelius
- Ideas are refined and multiplied in the commerce of minds. In their splendor, images effect a very simple communion of souls. — Gaston Bachelard
- There are two things which cannot be attacked in front: ignorance and narrow-mindedness. They can only be shaken by the simple development… — Lord Acton
- I always go for simplicity. — David Bailey
- Simplicity is natures first step, and the last of art. — Philip James Bailey
- It is easier to be a lover than a husband for the simple reason that it is more difficult to be witty… — Honore de Balzac
- Simplicity is the most deceitful mistress that ever betrayed man. — Henry Adams
- It is always the simple that produces the marvelous. — Amelia Barr
- We learn from our gardens to deal with the most urgent question of the time: How much is enough? — Wendell Berry
- Partial culture runs to the ornate, extreme culture to simplicity. — Christian Nestell Bovee