Quotes on Elegance

Adornment, what a science! Beauty, what a weapon! Modesty, what elegance!

Poker isn't the roulette wheel of pure chance, nor is it the chess of mathematical elegance and perfect information. Apart from the underlying mathematics, poker depends on the nuanced reading of human intention, interactions, and deceptions.

Modesty is the highest elegance

Elegance is not the prerogative of those who have just escaped from adolescence, but of those who have already taken possession of their future.

The only real elegance is in the mind; if you've got that, the rest really comes from it.

Hip-hop saved me. It gave me permission to use language in a certain way. It validated my community and my friends. It gave our slang a certain elegance.

Elegance is inferior to virtue.

Wear your best for your execution and stand dignified. Your last recourse against randomness is how you act - if you can't control outcomes, you can control the elegance of your behaviour. You will always have the last word.

What the scientists have always found by physical experiment was an a priori orderliness of nature, or Universe always operating at an elegance level that made the discovering scientist's working hypotheses seem crude by comparison. The discovered reality made the scientists exploratory work seem relatively disorderly.

A high station in life is earned by the gallantry with which appalling experiences are survived with grace.

You gave too much rein to your imagination. Imagination is a good servant, and a bad master. The simplest explanation is always the most likely.

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

Simplicity and elegance are unpopular because they require hard work and discipline to achieve and education to be appreciated.

How do we convince people that in programming simplicity and clarity - in short: what mathematicians call elegance - are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?

I fell in love with the elegance and precision of genetic analysis and experimentation to answer profound biological questions.

If you listen to the great Beatle records, the earliest ones where the lyrics are incredibly simple. Why are they still beautiful? Well, they're beautifully sung, beautifully played, and the mathematics in them is elegant. They retain their elegance.

A truly elegant taste is generally accompanied with excellency of heart.

Can anything be so elegant as to have few wants, and to serve them one's self?

If you are out to describe the truth, leave elegance to the tailor.

A statesman who keeps his ear permanently glued to the ground will have neither elegance of posture nor flexibility of movement.

Grooming is the secret of real elegance. The best clothes, the most wonderful jewels, the most glamorous beauty don't count without good grooming.