Beauty Is in Simplicity
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I love quotes. There is one quote that I particularly think is good for all software developers to know and keep close to their heart: | I love quotes. There is one quote that I particularly think is good for all software developers to know and keep close to their heart: | ||
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In one sentence I think this sums up the values that we as software developers should live by. | In one sentence I think this sums up the values that we as software developers should live by. | ||
Revision as of 09:56, 13 December 2008
I love quotes. There is one quote that I particularly think is good for all software developers to know and keep close to their heart:
- Beauty of style and harmony and grace and good rhythm depends on simplicity — Plato
In one sentence I think this sums up the values that we as software developers should live by.
There are a number of things we strive for in our code:
- readability
- maintainability
- speed of development
- and the elusive quality of beauty
Plato is telling us that the enabling factor for all of these qualities are simplicity.
