Even in the case of Michelangelo the job was to take away the optimum
amount, not all that could be taken away. He needed to find the point where
the slope of the underlying function was zero!
Jim Gray
----- Original Message -----
From: "Jim Self" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[email protected]>
Sent: Thursday, September 08, 2005 2:59 PM
Subject: Re: [Hardhats-members] GW quote/Objects vs. Types
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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