Achieve Quote by John Naughton

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury,…

— Edsger Dijkstra

Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defense against complexity.

— David Gelernter

True elegance becomes the more so as it approaches simplicity.

— Henry Ward Beecher

It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different.…

— Ralph Caplan

Ugly programs are like ugly suspension bridges: they're much more liable to collapse than pretty ones, because the way humans (especially engineer-humans) perceive beauty…

— Eric S. Raymond

Good programmers know what's beautiful and bad ones don't.

— David Gelernter

My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.

— Fernando J. Corbato

Elegance is achieved when all that is superfluous has been discarded and the human being discovers simplicity and concentration: the simpler and more sober…

— Paulo Coelho

“True Elegance is Measured by Simplicity”

— RJ Yolande Mendes

The programmer, like the poet, works only slightly removed from pure thought-stuff. He builds his castles in the air, from air, creating by exertion…

— Anonymous

Elegance of manner is the outgrowth of refined and exalted sense.

— Lord Chesterfield

Elegance must be the right combination of distinction, naturalness, care and simplicity. Outside this, believe me, there is no elegance. Only pretension.

— Christian Dior