#elegance

So if there is something on the planet that is worth living for, I'd better not miss it, because once you're dead, it's too late for regrets, and if you die by mistake, that is really, really dumb. ↗

— Muriel Barbery

#humor #irony #life #muriel-barbery #the-elegance-of-the-hedgehog

Fashion is neither moral or immoral, but it is for rebuilding the morale. ↗

— Karl Lagerfeld

#chanel #creativity #designer #elegance #immorality

An elegant woman is a woman who despises you and has no hair under her arms. ↗

— Salvador Dalí

#women #life

Like all magnificent things, it's very simple. ↗

— Natalie Babbitt

#philosophy #simplicity #simplicity

There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. ↗

— C.A.R. Hoare

#design

I am from the planet of elegance. ↗

— Ron Carter

#elegance #i #i am #planet

Elegance does not consist in putting on a new dress. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#does #dress #elegance #new #putting

Elegance is refusal. ↗

— Coco Chanel

#refusal

Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure. ↗

— Edsger Dijkstra

#decides #dispensable #elegance #factor #failure

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