
are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
1980s
Source: EWD648.
Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 80
are not a dispensable luxury, but a crucial matter that decides between success and failure?
1980s
Source: EWD648.
“Elegant as simplicity, and warm
As ecstasy.”
Source: Table Talk (1782), Line 588.
“Elegance of language must give way before simplicity in preaching sound doctrine.”
Reported in Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895) edited by Josiah Hotchkiss Gilbert, p. 481
“The elegant simplicity of the three per cents.”
As quoted in Lives of the Lord Chancellors (1845) by John Campbell, Vol. x. Chap. 212; this precedes the use by Benjamin Disraeli of "The sweet simplicity of the three per cents", in Endymion (1880).
“Minimum information given with maximum politeness.”
Instructions to press secretary Pamela Turnure; Quoted in A Hero for Our Time (1983) by Ralph G Martin; sometimes rendered : "I want minimum information given with maximum politeness."