It often happens that the requirements of simplicity and of beauty are the same, but where they clash the latter must take precedence.
— Paul Dirac, theoretical physicist
We have to change the principle of simplicity into a principle of mathematical beauty.
The research worker [...] should strive mainly for mathematical beauty. He should still take simplicity into consideration in a subordinate way to beauty.
-- Paul Dirac
Except for jQuery, I don’t use any frameworks. Why? Because many times, they just make things more complex. I kind of just write code
-- @levelsio (2014)
The beauty of simplicity is deadly and creative at the same time.
It destroys superfluous assumptions [...], whereas truly elegant explanations always give birth to an entirely new way of looking at the world.
-- Thomas Metzinger
A file is as complicated as the shortest program that can produce it from scratch.
This defines a precise, widely applicable, numerical measure of simplicity.
-- @FrankWilczek
