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An elucidating quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry: "It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more
by Artoemius 10y ago
An elucidating quote from Antoine de Saint-Exupéry:
"It seems that perfection is attained not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing more to remove."
- lostlogin 10y agoThis sort of attitude leaves us without headphone jacks on our phones.
- JetSpiegel 10y agoNothing more to add while retaining functionality. Otherwise remove everything.
- khedoros1 10y agoOnly if you get to the "nothing left to remove point", and then remove something else. It's best for something to be minimal, as long as it's not also insufficient.
- ctdonath 10y agoWireless headphones are a thing for half of users now. The example you're looking for, and everyone has properly forgotten about, is the short-lived "no UI" iPod Shuffle.
- combatentropy 10y agoWhich is why Albert Einstein said it better: "Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler."
- Zikes 10y agoFeature Golf
- dingaling 10y agoThough what he actually said was: It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience. which isn't quite as catchy.
- baddox 10y agoFine by me. I got that phone on release day, and the negativity about the jack removal has caused me much more annoyance than the removal itself.