Home / Quotes / Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

“Perfection is reachednot when there's nothing to add, but when there's nothing to take away.”

Quote by Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Author

Antoine de Saint-Exupery

Antoine de Saint-Exupery was a French writer, poet, and aviator, renowned for his novella 'The Little Prince,' which has been translated into over 300 languages and remains one of the most beloved books worldwide. During World War II, he served as a pilot in the French Air Force, and his mysterious disappearance over the Mediterranean Sea in 1944 remains unsolved. more

You May Also Like

“The real art is knowing what to leave out, not what to put in.”

Art Real Knowing Art Is

Author:Steve Jobs

“Life is one darn thing after another.”

Author:Calvin Coolidge

“If there is any way for that man to do the job wrong, he'll do it that way.”

Ifs Men Way Jobs

Author:Edward A. Murphy, Jr.

“There is an inherent dissonancebetween the quasi-formal world of computer programs - defining the programmed machine in each system - and the non-formal problem world of the system requirements.”

World Problem Computer Program Machines Inherent Formal Requirements Defining

Author:Michael Jackson

“Nothing can be more fatal to progress than a too confident reliance on mathematical symbols; for the student is only too apt to take the easier course, and consider the formula not the fact as the physical reality.”

Facts Reality Courses Progress Students Easier Symbols Mathematical Formulas Reliance

Author:Lord Kelvin

“So-called "natural language" is wonderful for the purposes it was created for, such as to be rude in, to tell jokes in, to cheat or to make love in (and Theorists of Literary Criticism can even be content-free in it), but it is hopelessly inadequate when we have to deal unambiguously with situations of great intricacy, situations which unavoidably arise in such activities as legislation, arbitration, mathematics or programming.”

“Requirements in mathematical language are no use unless they are easier to read than the code.”

Use Language Easier Mathematical Code Requirements

Author:David Parnas

“Change always follows the same pattern. If you come up with something new they try and put you off.If that doesn't work they call you stark raving bonkers.If that doesn't work they lock you up like the suffragettes.Then, after a pause, the change happensand you can't find anyone that doesn't claim to have been fighting for it with you.”

Ifs Trying Has Beens Fighting Claims Patterns Come Up Something New Locks Pauses Starks Suffragettes

Author:Tony Benn

“Teaching 23-year-olds in an MBA programme strikes me as largely a waste of time. They lack the background of experience. You can teach them skills - accounting and what have you - but you can't teach them management.”

Years Teach Teaching Skills Waste Management Strikes Backgrounds Wasting Time Accounting Programmes Mba

Author:Peter Drucker

“When frying small fish, disturb them little.”

Littles Fishes Frying Small Fish

Author:Confucius