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January 24, 2005
Vishy's Vonderful Vitticism #2
Who said they always had to be authored by me?
Perfection is attained not when there is nothing to add but when there is nothing to take away.
--Antoine de Saint-Exupery
Yes, that's the author of The Little Prince.
In the original:
La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien à ajouter, mais quand il ne reste rien à enlever.
When I saw this quote somewhere on the Web, I was so floored I wanted to kiss my computer screen. An infinitely more poetic and palatable expression of Occam's Razor.
Posted by Vishy at January 24, 2005 11:13 PM
Comments
One of my favorite quotes. I think it comes from his book Citadel, but I'm not sure. I used to read a lot of his stuff at one point. Those were the days, before I was de-poetized by MIT. Hmm, well, I'm getting out in a few months... ?
Posted by: Karolina at January 25, 2005 02:49 PM