<p dir="ltr">I don't have a quote I can vouch for but I love the story of Theodore Gisel (Dr. Seus), when asked how his book was progressing, proudly told his publisher that over the last week he had removed twenty words.<br>
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<div class="gmail_extra"><br><div class="gmail_quote">On Aug 11, 2016 11:08 PM, "Greg A. Woods" <<a href="mailto:woods@weird.com">woods@weird.com</a>> wrote:<br type="attribution"><blockquote class="quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">At Thu, 11 Aug 2016 09:25:54 -0400, arocker@Vex.Net wrote:<br>
Subject: [u-u] Source of quotation<br>
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> I found the source of the quotation about design that I offered last night:<br>
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> Antoine Saint-Exupery: <a href="http://www.quotationspage.com/quote/26979.html" rel="noreferrer" target="_blank">http://www.quotationspage.com/<wbr>quote/26979.html</a><br>
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</div>I'll have to add that to my quotes file next to a similar one by<br>
Einstein about simplicity, written in about the same time:<br>
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It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make<br>
the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without<br>
having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of<br>
experience.<br>
-- Albert Einstein<br>
From On the Method of Theoretical Physics, the Herbert Spencer<br>
Lecture, Oxford, June 10, 1933.<br>
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The more pithy version of Einstein's quote is apparently better<br>
attributed to a paraphrasing by Sessions:<br>
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I also remember a remark of Albert Einstein, which certainly applies to<br>
music. He said, in effect, that everything should be as simple as it<br>
can be but not simpler!<br>
-- Roger Sessions<br>
The New York Times, January 8, 1950<br>
How a Difficult Composer Gets That Way<br>
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--<br>
Greg A. Woods <<a href="mailto:gwoods@acm.org">gwoods@acm.org</a>><br>
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