Elegance Quotes - Page 10

• So you see, in the end, it is nearly certain that the power of prediction must triumph over the arrogance of elegance.

  Robert Haugen

  Arrogance, Triumph, Certain

  "The Inefficient Stock Market - What Pays Off And Why". Book by Robert Haugen, ch. 15, The Wrong 20-yard Line, p. 148, 1999.

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• Model building is the art of selecting those aspects of a process that are relevant to the question being asked. As with any art, this selection is guided by taste, elegance, and metaphor; it is a matter of induction, rather than deduction. High science depends on this art.

  John Henry Holland

  Art, Matter, Taste

  John Henry Holland (1995). “Hidden order: how adaptation builds complexity”, Addison-Wesley Longman

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• The elegance of dress, of motion, and of manners gives a lustre to beauty, and inflames the senses through the imagination. Luxurious entertainments, midnight dances, and licentious spectacles, present at once temptation and opportunity to female frailty. From such dangers the unpolished wives of the barbarians were secured by poverty, solitude, and the painful cares of a domestic life.

  Edward Gibbon

  Opportunity, History, Giving

  Edward Gibbon (1854). “The history of the decline and fall of the Roman empire, with notes by Milman and Guizot. Ed. by W. Smith”, p.363

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• Outside observers often assume that the more complicted a piece of mathematics is, the more mathematicians admire it. Nothing could be further from the truth. Mathematicians admire elegance and simplicity above all else, and the ultimate goal in solving a problem is to find the method that does the job in the most efficient manner. Though the major accolades are given to the individual who solves a particular problem first, credit (and gratitude) always goes to those who subsequently find a simpler solution.

  Keith Devlin

  Gratitude, Jobs, Goal

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• Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are not necessarily wild-eyed. "Bit-twiddlers" are neither exactly proletariat nor bourgeoisie. They may not own the means of production in the sense that Marx argued, but they certainly do have significantly control over those means, in a more profound way than the term "symbols analysts" or "knowledge workers" captures. As a rough generalization, they value science and technological problem-solving elegance equally at least with profit.

  Steven Weber

  Mean, Technology, Class

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• But amid much elegance and precision, the details of life and the Universe also exhibit haphazard, jury-rigged arrangements and much poor planning. What shall we make of this: an edifice abandoned early in construction by the architect?

  Carl Sagan

  Details Of Life, Atheism, Poor Planning

  Carl Sagan, Ann Druyan (2011). “Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space”, p.76, Ballantine Books

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• Overstated planning is the backbone of understated elegance.

  Molly O'Neill

  Planning, Backbone, Understated

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• I've tried to find a new elegance. It's not easy because people want to be shocked. They want explosive fashion. But explosions don't last, they disappear immediately and leave nothing but ashes.

  Giorgio Armani

  Fashion, People, Ashes

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• It is important to notice that these badly functioning designs were praised for 'elegance.' But elegance as theoretical scientists apply it is quite different. The elegance of a mathematical formula is that it explains a phenomenon beautifully, with no parts left over. In design, elegance is more readily perceived as a property of product than of process. If we had more elegant theories, we might look to design for more than elegance.

  Ralph Caplan

  Design, Important, Might

  Ralph Caplan (2006). “Cracking the Whip: Essays on Design and Its Side Effects”, Fairchild Books

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• I have the vagary of taking a lively interest in mathematical subjects only where I may anticipate ingenious association of ideas and results recommending themselves by elegance or generality.

  Carl Friedrich Gauss

  Science, Ideas, May

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• The well dressed man never stands out in a crowd; his elegance sets him apart.

  Oscar de la Renta

  Fashion, Men, Crowds

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• I love that period, between the '20s and the '60s. I love doing period pieces, and those eras are my favorite period in time, music wise, and the elegance and the way of being.

  Laz Alonso

  Wise, Pieces, Way

  Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.

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• There are many actors who have inspired me: Spencer Tracy for his incredible elegance and, of course, Cary Grant. But, there's also an Italian actor I admire a great deal: Alberto Sordi.

  Alfred Molina

  Italian, Actors, Inspired

  "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• You can't learn how to be elegant; you can only learn how to avoid mistakes. The rest is instinct. Elegance is about the way you cross your legs, not the label or the newest clothes from the latest collection.

  Carine Roitfeld

  Mistake, Clothes, Labels

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• Braininess is not attractive unless combined with some signs of elegance; class.

  Alice Munro

  Class, Attractive

  Alice Munro (2015). “A Wilderness Station: Selected Stories, 1968-1994”, p.180, Vintage

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• In the right hands, a comic strip attains a beauty and elegance that, really, I would put against any other art.

  Bill Watterson

  Art, Hands, Comic Book

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• I believe there's plenty of market for each; we're talking about an ecosystem that is going to support billions of devices, so a competitive landscape is good for consumers, developers, and the platforms alike. Apple brings a smooth elegance to its devices and platform, with the best marketplace experience to boot. Google brings a higher volume of devices as well as a more diverse ecosystem to interact with. The real story here is that Microsoft is nowhere to be seen, ending a two-decade monopoly and creating biggest opportunity for software startups probably ever.

  Aaron Levie

  Real, Believe, Opportunity

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• I thought... their elegance... lies not so much in their clothes as in their bodies, and their bodies have received it, and continue to unceasingly receive it, from their souls, which are just like yours, lovely Simonetta.

  Alexander Theroux

  Lying, Clothes, Soul

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• ...the feeling of mathematical beauty, of the harmony of numbers and of forms, of geometric elegance. It is a genuinely aesthetic feeling, which all mathematicians know

  Henri Poincare

  Math, Numbers, Feelings

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• The Saluki is a marvel of elegance.

  Vita Sackville-West

  Dog

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• New Orleans is a city of elegance, beauty, and refinement.

  Tom Piazza

  New Orleans, Cities, Refinement

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• I enjoy very much seeing a good photographer working. There’s an elegance, just like in a bullfight.

  Henri Cartier-Bresson

  Photographer, Enjoy, Seeing

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• I wanted to give young girls something positive to look up to…I wanted to give them their Blizzard of Aahhhs, Ski Movie or High Life, but done in a way that also shows the elegance, grace, community and style that is unique to women in the mountains.

  Lynsey Dyer

  Girl, Unique, Giving

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• Isn't there a curious elegance in how one moment passes into another?

  Stephen Dunn

  Moments, Curious

  Stephen Dunn (1999). “Riffs and Reciprocities: Prose Pairs”, p.44, W. W. Norton & Company

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• Personal beauty requires that one should be tall; little people may have charm and elegance, but beauty-no.

  Aristotle

  Beauty, People, May

  Aristotle (1953). “Ethics: The Nicomachean Ethics”

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