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A comment on Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawing to 12 perfect pen strokes.

Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by ars on Tuesday July 22, 2008 @06:23PM (#253697)
“Perfection is achieved, not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.” - Antoine de St. Exupery

One of my favorite quotes. All programmers should keep this in mind when working.

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Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by vchakrav on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @01:11AM (#254082)
That should be -- "Perfection is achieved when there is nothing left to take away."
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Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by ars on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @02:41AM (#254139)
Is the translation wrong (I got it from wikiquotes), or do you disagree with what he said?
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Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by vchakrav on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @03:11AM (#254145)
Oh, I was just applying the principle of the quote to itself.
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Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by jamesbritt on Thursday July 24, 2008 @08:29AM (#255270)
Then you should remove all the words from the quote, leaving nothing more to take away.

(Yes, I consider the quote superficially appealing but essentially content-free.)

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Re:Pablo Picasso's version of refactoring: Reducing a drawin... by ars on Wednesday July 23, 2008 @03:46AM (#254158)
:)
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