dares comments on Rationality Quotes: April 2011 - Less Wrong

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Comment author: dares 06 April 2011 12:19:53AM 2 points [-]

Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

—Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Comment author: childofbaud 07 April 2011 03:46:10AM 6 points [-]

A domain-specific interpretation of the same concept:

"The real hero of programming is the one who writes negative code."

—Douglas McIlroy

Comment author: childofbaud 07 April 2011 11:10:13PM 5 points [-]

A domain-neutral interpretation of the same concept:

Entities should not be multiplied beyond necessity.

—William of Ockham

Comment author: bcoburn 06 April 2011 05:03:58AM 2 points [-]

This one really needs to have been applied to itself, "short is good" is way better.

(also this was one of EY's quotes in the original rationality quotes set, http://lesswrong.com/lw/mx/rationality_quotes_3/ )

Comment author: dares 06 April 2011 12:37:19PM 3 points [-]

Also, "short is good" would narrow this quotes focus considerably.

Comment author: [deleted] 07 April 2011 01:06:47AM 3 points [-]

Perfection is lack of excess.

Comment author: CronoDAS 06 April 2011 06:24:09AM 1 point [-]

Maybe it's shorter in French?

Comment author: komponisto 06 April 2011 06:35:47AM 5 points [-]

Compare:

Il semble que la perfection soit atteinte non quand il n'y a plus rien à ajouter, mais quand il n'y a plus rien à retrancher.

So, no.

Comment author: dares 06 April 2011 12:35:43PM 0 points [-]

New here, sorry for the redundancy. I probably should have guessed that such a popular quote had been used.

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