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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 St. Exupery

One of my favorite quotes. All programmers should keep this in mind when working.



That should be -- "Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away."


Is the translation wrong (I got it from wikiquotes), or do you disagree with what he said?


Oh, I was just applying the principle of the quote to itself.


Then you should remove all the words from the quote, leaving nothing more to take away.

(Yes, I consider the quote superficially appealing but essentially content-free.)


:)




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