#elegance

I believe that the Apple Shuffle is an excellent compromise among the conflicting requirements of simplicity, elegance, size, battery life, and function. ↗

— Donald Norman

#apple #battery #believe #compromise #conflicting

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 ingredient of mathematics: if it is clumsy, it is not mathematics. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#clumsy #consider #elegance #essential #further

Shoes for men are about elegance or wealth, they are not playing with the inner character. That is why women are happy to wear painful shoes. ↗

— Christian Louboutin

#character #elegance #happy #inner #men

If only for the sake of elegance, I try to remain morally pure. ↗

— Marcel Proust

#i #morally #only #pure #remain

Isn't elegance forgetting what one is wearing? ↗

— Yves Saint Laurent

#forgetting #wearing

Elegance is inferior to virtue. ↗

— Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

#inferior #virtue

Indeed, "brute force" solutions are often characteristic of advanced cultures, not primitive ones. The Romans and their predecessors spent a long time figuring out how to build arches... and virtually all our buildings today use post-and-lintel construction, precisely what the arch was devised to replace. We have better materials and more money, and given that, arches are usually not worth the extra complexity. ↗

— Henry Spencer

#brute-force #complexity #elegance #engineering #architecture

Poetry is at least an elegance and at most a revelation. ↗

— Robert Fitzgerald

#least #most #poetry #revelation

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