Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure.
Edsger Dijkstra
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- Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it.
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