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“What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.”

Beautiful Theory Fundamentals Physics Remarkable Elegant

Author:Murray Gell-Mann

“Mr. David Stockman has said that supply-side economics was merely a cover for the trickle-down approach to economic policy — what an older and less elegant generation called the horse-and-sparrow theory: If you feed the horse enough oats, some will pass through to the road for the sparrows.”

Ifs Said Enough Sides Generations Economic Policy Theory Approach Economics Horse Elegant Sparrows Economic Policy Trickle Down Oats Trickle Down Economics Supply Side Economics

Author:John Kenneth Galbraith

“And to use something as elegant as a tree? Imagine this design assignment: Design something that makes oxygen, sequesters carbon, fixes nitrogen, distills water, makes complex sugars and foods, changes colors with the seasons, and self-replicates. and then why don't we knock that down and write on it?”

Writing Self Use Water Nature Imagine Tree Design Food Color Seasons Down And Complexes Sugar Carbon Elegant Oxygen Knocking Fixing Assignments Replicate Nitrogen Distillation

Author:William McDonough

“A devastating culmination of the elegant and the funky, a really sensational musician with enormous depth.”

Musician Depth Enormous Elegant Sensational Culmination Funky

Author:Nick Lowe

“The mathematical question is "Why?" It's always why. And the only way we know how to answer such questions is to come up, from scratch, with these narrative arguments that explain it. So what I want to do with this book is open up this world of mathematical reality, the creatures that we build there, the questions that we ask there, the ways in which we poke and prod (known as problems), and how we can possibly craft these elegant reason-poems.”

“To write well about the elegant world you have to know it and experience it to the depths of your being... what matters is not whether you love it or hate it, but only to be quite clear about your position regarding it.”

Knows World Writing Wells Matter Hate Clear Position Depth What Matters Elegant

Book:Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

Source: Italo Calvino: Letters, 1941-1985

“The farm was a great place to grow up, but I preferred the Hollywood Hills. My aunt looked like Lucille Ball and everything she touched was beautiful and elegant. But I was intelligent enough to understand I would never be like her.”

Enough Beautiful Grows Growing Up Hollywood Balls Intelligent Hills Touched Farms Elegant Aunt Like Her Hollywood Hills

Author:Sandra Lerner

“I can think of a lot of women clients of mine who are well into their 50s or 60s who are still quintessentially very elegant.”

Thinking Wells Stills I Can Mines Clients Elegant

Author:Bruce Oldfield

“Elegance is like manners. You can’t be polite only on Wednesday or Thursday. If you are elegant, you should be every day of the week. If you are not, then it’s another matter.”

Ifs Should Matter Week Manners Polite Elegant Elegance Wednesday Thursday Days Of The Week

Author:Aldo Gucci

“We shall do a much better programming job, provided that we approach the task with a full appreciation of its tremendous difficulty, provided that we stick to modest and elegant programming languages, provided that we respect the intrinsic limitations of the human mind and approach the task as Very Humble Programmers.”

Mind Humans Jobs Language Approach Tasks Difficulty Sticks Appreciation Humble Limitation Programming Human Mind Modest Elegant Programmers Programming Languages

Author:Edsger Dijkstra

“With the Solaris, however, I wanted to design a very simple, elegant dress watch”

Wanted Simple Watches Design Dresses Elegant Solaris

Author:Marc Newson

“Like the entomologist in search of colorful butterflies, my attention has chased in the gardens of the grey matter cells with delicate and elegant shapes, the mysterious butterflies of the soul, whose beating of wings may one day reveal to us the secrets of the mind.”

Mind May Soul Matter Secret Attention One Day Shapes Garden Wings Mysterious Cells Delicate Butterfly Grey Elegant Colorful Grey Matter

Author:Santiago Ramon y Cajal

“If you have ever been accused of being rude when you were merely stating the truth, or called a gossip because you like to dwell on other people's actions, Westacott is for you. His linked studies of everyday vices offer elegant analysis of the goods that lurk in behavior that is usually condemned. This wise book is practical philosophy in the best sense.”

People Ifs Book Philosophy Action Study Wise Offers Behavior Everyday Vices Practicals Analysis Goods Gossip Rude Linked Elegant Accused Being Rude Other People's Actions

Author:Mark Kingwell

“It's funny to have become an elegant skier now. But my drive is still the same.”

Stills Elegant Skiers

Author:Hermann Maier

“What is the central core of the subject [computer science]? What is it that distinguishes it from the separate subjects with which it is related? What is the linking thread which gathers these disparate branches into a single discipline. My answer to these questions is simple -it is the art of programming a computer. It is the art of designing efficient and elegant methods of getting a computer to solve problems, theoretical or practical, small or large, simple or complex. It is the art of translating this design into an effective and accurate computer program.”

“Complexity has and will maintain a strong fascination for many people. It is true that we live in a complex world and strive to solve inherently complex problems, which often do require complex mechanisms. However, this should not diminish our desire for elegant solutions, which convince by their clarity and effectiveness. Simple, elegant solutions are more effective, but they are harder to find than complex ones, and they require more time, which we too often believe to be unaffordable”

“The transformation of disease, as exemplified by the case of diabetes, is a valuable and elegant concept that serves to remind us that the tally sheet for medical science must carry a column for debit as well as credit.”

Wells Cases Healthy Disease Concepts Transformation Valuable Credit Medical Sheets Elegant Columns Diabetes Medical Science Debit

Author:Deborah Butterfield

“I have stolen more quotes and thoughts and purely elegant little starbursts of writing from the Book of Revelation than anything else in the English language - and it is not because I am a biblical scholar, or because of any religious faith, but because I love the wild power of the language and the purity of the madness that governs it and makes it music.”

Love Writing Littles Book Language Religious Madness Purity Revelations Scholar Biblical Elegant Stolen English Language Religious Faith Book Of Revelation

Book:Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

Source: Generation of Swine: The Brutal Odyssey of an Outlaw Journalist

“New York is a galaxy of adventure at once elegant, exciting and bizarre. It's a city that moves so fast, it takes energy just to stand still.”

Stills Moving Energy Justice Cities New York Adventure Exciting Bizarre Galaxy Elegant

Author:Barbara Walters

“It was by music that the ancient kings gave elegant expression to their joy. By their armies and axes they gave the same to their anger.”

Joy Expression Kings Anger Army Blame Ancient Elegant Axes

Book:Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions

Source: Li Chi: Book of Rites: An Encyclopedia of Ancient Ceremonial Usages, Religious Creeds, and Social Institutions

“Study the teachings of the pine tree, the bamboo, and the plum blossom. The pine is evergreen, firmly rooted, and venerable. The bamboo is strong, resilient, unbreakable. The plum blossom is hardy, fragrant, and elegant.”

Strong Study Tree Teaching Rooted Elegant Resilient Hardy Plums Unbreakable Pine Trees Bamboo Evergreens Plum Blossoms

Book:The Art of Peace

Source: The Art of Peace

“The great piano virtuoso Paderewski was once playing before an audience of the rich and the royal. After a brilliant performance, an elegant lady waxed ecstatic over the great artist. She said, "Ah Maestro, you are a genius!" Paderewski tartly replied, "Ah yes, madam, but before I was a genius I was a clod!" What he was saying was that his present acclaim was not handed to him on a silver platter. He, too, was once a little boy laboriously practicing his scales. And even at his peak, behind every brilliant performance there were countless hours of practice and preparation.”

“The sword was a very elegant weapon in the days of the samurai. You had honor and chivalry much like the knights, and yet it was a gruesome and horrific weapon.”

Honor Weapons Elegant Knights Chivalry Horrific Samurai

Author:Dustin Diamond

“No one has ever played these endgames with such elegant ease as Capablanca.”

Chess Ease Elegant Endgame Capablanca

Author:Richard Reti

“My mother was a very elegant woman. When a flying saucer landed on the lawn, she turned it over to see if it was Wedgwood.”

Ifs Humor Mother Flying Elegant Lawns Flying Saucers Elegant Woman

Author:Joan Rivers

“No outdoor sports can be more elegant than throwing stones at autocracy; no melees can be more exciting than those in cyberspace.”

Sports Stones Exciting Throwing Elegant Cyberspace Autocracy Throwing Stones

Author:Ai Weiwei

“Grace can never properly be said to exist without beauty; for it is only in the elegant proportions of beautiful forms that can be found that harmonious variety of line and motion which is the essence and charm of grace.”

Said Beautiful Form Found Lines Grace Essence Variety Charm Proportion Elegant Harmonious

Author:Johann Joachim Winckelmann

“As you know, shibumi has to do with great refinement underlying commonplace appearances. It is a statement so correct that it does not have to be bold, so poignant it does not have to be pretty, so true it does not have to be real. Shibumi is understanding, rather than knowledge. Eloquent silence. In demeanor, it is modesty without pudency. In art, where the spirit of shibumi takes the form of sabi, it is elegant simplicity, articulate brevity. In philosophy, where shibumi emerges as wabi, it is spiritual tranquility that is not passive; it is being without the angst of becoming.”

Source: Shibumi: A Novel

“Should not the Bible regain the place it once held as a schoolbook? Its morals are pure, its examples are captivating and noble....In no Book is there so good English, so pure and so elegant, and by teaching all the same they will speak alike, and the Bible will justly remain the standard of language as well as of faith.”

Should Wells Book Speak Language Moral Teaching Example Pure Standards Noble Elegant Captivating

Author:Fisher Ames

“The Thickety is a sinister, magical debut with a marvelous and shocking heroine. J.A. White’s elegant writing and masterful plot kept me turning pages late into the night.”

Writing Night White Late Pages Plot Marvelous Shocking Elegant Heroines Sinister Debut

Author:Lisa McMann

“To be truly elegant one should not be noticed”

Author:Beau Brummell

“A Dream of Undying Fame is a probing, elegant and balanced book. Louis Breger shows how Freud’s traumatic childhood shaped his ambitious, detached and authoritarian personality, and led to the betrayal of his mentor, Josef Breuer. Breger’s analysis exposes a fascinating paradox: Freud both invented psychoanalysis and impoverished its development. A must-read for everyone interested in how ideas can change the world.”

“A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to the user. A great designer can go beyond this and create a design that demonstrates that some of those constraints weren’t really there to begin with.”

Stills Design Designer Satisfying Users Elegant Constraints Accommodate Good Design

Author:Jesse James Garrett

“Tall, elegant, vital, scornful. A man like that could rock a woman to her very core.”

Men Rocks Core Tall Elegant

Book:Strategy for Marriage

Source: Strategy for Marriage

“Don't be into trends. Don't make fashion own you, but you decide what you are.”

“Decide what you are, what you want to express by the way you dress and the way you live.”

“There’s nothing better than an elegant cry of despair.”

Cry Despair Elegant

Book:Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews

Source: Goyen: Autobiographical Essays, Notebooks, Evocations, Interviews

“In JavaScript, there is a beautiful, elegant, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blunders.”

Beautiful Language Intention Buried Elegant Good Intentions Blunders Expressive Javascript

Book:JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

Source: JavaScript: The Good Parts: The Good Parts

“A HUMAN ELEMENT is an elegant and haunting first novel. Unrelenting, devious but full of heart. Highly recommended.”

Firsts Humans Heart Novel Elements Elegant Haunting Unrelenting Devious

Author:Jonathan Maberry

“I read Norman Lock’s The Boy in His Winter with delight and amazement. Styled in the vernacular of a rapidly changing America, it stays true to the themes of Mark Twain’s original: class relations, race and slavery, childhood innocence, moral hypocrisy—and, of course, the stark beauty and unforgiving nature of America’s greatest river. I finished this absolutely elegant narrative feeling that Huck Finn has never been more alive.”

“When we think good thoughts, we feel good. When we feel good, we make good choices. When we feel good and make good choices, we draw more good experiences into our lives. It really is that simple … and elegant … and true.”

Thinking Feels Choices Simple Our Lives Draws Feel Good Elegant Good Thoughts Good Choices Good Experiences

Author:Cheryl Richardson

“Just as many smart people fail in the investment business as stupid ones. Intellectually active people are particularly attracted to elegant concepts, which can have the effect of distracting them from the simpler, more fundamental truths.”

People Failing Effects Stupid Smart Concepts Fundamentals Investment Active Elegant Smart People

Author:Peter Cundill

“Elegant persuasion is when the other person thought it was their idea.”

Persons Ideas Persuasion Elegant

Book:Passion Profit Power

Source: Passion Profit Power

“Will highly comprehensible code, by virtue of being easy to modify, inevitably be supplanted by increasingly less elegant code until some equilibrium is achieved between comprehensibility and fragility? Perhaps simple on the outside/fragile on the inside can be an effective survival strategy for evolving artifacts.”

Easy Simple Virtue Survival Strategy Evolve Code Fragile Elegant Equilibrium Fragility Artifacts

Author:Brian Foote

“I don't think you're happier if you're thin or beautiful or rich or married. You have to make your own happiness. My heroines do not become beautiful elegant swans, they become confident ducks and get on with life.”

Ifs Thinking Beautiful Rich Married Ducks Elegant Heroines Swans

Author:Maeve Binchy

“Accessories are important and becoming more and more important every day. They can completely change the look of an outfit, and women like the idea of having a wardrobe that's versatile. For instance, a strong piece of jewelry can make a simple outfit look elegant.”

Looks Important Ideas Strong Simple Pieces Becoming Instance Elegant Jewelry Wardrobe Becoming More Accessories Versatile

Author:Giorgio Armani

“You don't need Tom Wolfe to tell you that the Buckhead section of Atlanta is the jewel of the city, an area of gracious homes, elegant hotels and shopping centers, as well as some of the best restaurants.”

Needs Wells Home Cities Areas Restaurants Hotel Shopping Toms Sections Elegant Jewels Gracious Atlanta Shopping Centers

Author:Florence Fabricant

“It is easy to study the rules of overloading and of templates without noticing that together they are one of the keys to elegant and efficient type-safe containers.”

Together Easy Study Keys Type Safe Efficient Elegant Noticing Containers

Author:Bjarne Stroustrup

“Although there exist many thousand subjects for elegant conversation, there are persons who cannot meet a cripple without talking about feet.”

Persons Talking Feet Subjects Thousand Conversation Elegant Cripples

Book:ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more

Source: ERNEST BRAMAH Ultimate Collection: 20+ Novels & Short Stories (Including Max Carrados Mysteries and Kai Lung Fantasy Stories): The Secret of the League, The Coin of Dionysius, The Game Played In the Dark, The Tilling Shaw Mystery, Kai Lung's Golden Hours, The Confession of Kai Lung, The Mirror of Kong Ho and many more

“To Forget Venice is a tour de force of ventriloquism. Elegant, contemporary, and wry, the voice at its center is also capable of disarming flights of imagination as it enters and inhabits other lives across time and gender. The glittering, fetid city emerges as a complex metaphor for the human heart’s simultaneous tenderness and capacity for cruelty, its ‘silver glow / a local specialty: filth / disguised as ornament.’ This Venice is unforgettable.”