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Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away. -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
by airstrike 4y ago
Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.
-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry
- malfist 4y agoThat doesn't mean shorter is always better. When you take away necessary detail to make things shorter, you wind up with a shorter, less perfect law. For instance, if the law was "No driving over 70mph on I-75", shortening the law to "No driving" isn't an improvement. And even if we maintain the detail and shorten to "No 70+mph driving @ I-75" it doesn't improve things. Concise is good. shortness for shortness sake is not. We don't need to be playing code golf with laws.
- snvzz 4y agoSeen this quote recently, in some book about RISC-V.