Richard Hamming Quote

We constantly use the word "simplify", but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.


The Art of Doing Science and Engineering: Learning to Learn (1991)


We constantly use the word simplify, but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.

We constantly use the word simplify, but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.

We constantly use the word simplify, but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.

We constantly use the word simplify, but its meaning depends on what you are going to do next, and there is no uniform definition.