James Gray wrote:
>I really doubt if perfection is a
>simple monotonic function of the amount you take away (or the amount you
>add).

Yes. The quote might descibe the approach of a sculptor like Michelangelo who 
purportedly
could see a perfect form inside a stone and then proceed to remove everything 
else, but it
seems too one-sided of an approach to apply well to software development or 
life in general.

>> Gregory Woodhouse wrote:
>> >"Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more
>> >to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."
>> >-- Antoine de Saint-Exupery
>>

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Jim Self
Systems Architect, Lead Developer
VMTH Computer Services, UC Davis
(http://www.vmth.ucdavis.edu/us/jaself)


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