#elegance

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#philosophy #simplicity #simplicity

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. ↗

— C.A.R. Hoare

#design

I am from the planet of elegance. ↗

— Ron Carter

#elegance #i #i am #planet

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#does #dress #elegance #new #putting

Elegance is refusal. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#refusal

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#decides #dispensable #elegance #factor #failure

The way in which mathematicians and physicists and historians talk is quite different, and what a physicist means by physical intuition and what a mathematician means by beauty or elegance are things worth thinking about. ↗

— Clifford Geertz

#beauty #different #elegance #historians #intuition

I feel that my environment reflects my belief in the grace and art and elegance of living simply. ↗

— Bell Hooks

#belief #elegance #environment #feel #grace

I felt that the elegance of pop music was that it was reflective: we were holding up a mirror to our audience and reflecting them philosophically and spiritually, rather than just reflecting society or something called 'rock and roll.' ↗

— Pete Townshend

#called #elegance #felt #holding #i

Elegance is innate. It has nothing to do with being well dressed. Elegance is refusal. ↗

— Diana Vreeland

#dressed #elegance #innate #nothing #refusal