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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>elegant</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../E.html" title="E"/><link rel="previous" href="elder-days.html" title="elder days"/><link rel="next" href="elephantine.html" title="elephantine"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">elegant</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="elder-days.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">E</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="elephantine.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="elegant"/><dt xmlns="" id="elegant"><b>elegant</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">adj.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> [common; from mathematical usage] Combining simplicity, power, and a
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certain ineffable grace of design. Higher praise than
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‘clever’, ‘winning’, or even
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<a href="../C/cuspy.html"><i class="glossterm">cuspy</i></a>.</p><p>The French aviator, adventurer, and author Antoine de
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Saint-Exupéry, probably best known for his classic children's book
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<i class="citetitle">The Little Prince</i>, was also an aircraft designer.
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He gave us perhaps the best definition of engineering elegance when he said
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“<span class="quote">A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is
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nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take
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