Bertrand Delacretaz wrote:
I think it was Blaise Pascal who said: "I'm writing you this long letter because I lack the time of writing a shorter one".Le Lundi, 10 fév 2003, à 18:04 Europe/Zurich, Sylvain Wallez a écrit :This reminds me of my favorite quote : "Perfection is achieved not when there's nothing more to add, but when there's nothing left to remove" (Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, also quoted by ESR in the Cathedral and the Bazaar). This is pinned on my office wall.
Anyway, this is not going to be one long-lasting signature like the previous oue, but I thought it was worth it for a while.
The occam razor is most commonly translared as: "between more choices, the simplest is normally right one". Goes along with Einstein's thoughts about 'between two theories, the most elegant is probably the right one'.
Simplicity and elegance are two sides of the same coin and reflect the particular human ability to extract patterns from information in such a deep format that concepts like 'elegance' and 'simplicity' will be very hard to achieve (I say impossible) by turing machines (Like Alan Turing, I don't believe the human brain is a turing machine, unlike Marvin Minsky et alia).
But also has a more personal meaning attached to it given my status of single I thought it was very funny, yet very thoughtful ;-)
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Stefano Mazzocchi <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Pluralitas non est ponenda sine necessitate [William of Ockham]
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