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by spiderfarmer 168 days ago
I hate it when ‘inspirational’ quotes are attributed to the person with the largest audience and not the people who came up with it, like in this case, the engineers at Lockheed’s Skunk Works.
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It's an apocryphal quote.

"A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."

- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Or Colin Chapman at Lotus: "Simplify, then add lightness." Could just be wise advice :)
I like this. A lot.
Ok this wins my “best wikipedia article of December” award
Check out this cacophony of an infographic:

https://upload.wikimedia.org/wikipedia/commons/b/bf/40_princ...

No wonder the soviet union collapsed!

When you need Moscow to explain the hammer sign on your corded drill, its too late for damage control.