Quotes About Inelegant

I'm just physically stupid.

People who know me know that I am very clumsy, always fumbling, and I talk rubbish most of the times.

Nothing more inelegant and ineffective than an art conceived in another art's form.

You walk like a duck with a wet diaper on.'' Anita Blake Vampire Hunter

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.

biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

I am not graceful.

Inelegant to reproach a man for his sterility, when that is his postulate, his mode of achievement, his dream….

I hoped the dramatic power of the play would rest on that tension between elegant structure - the underlying plan is that you see the first and last meeting of every couple in the play - and inelegant emotion.

His demeanor was condescending, his body language was inelegant, and it was (apparently) better to be uninformed than annoying.

He rolls his eyes. "As a prince of Faerie, I flatly refuse to leave cash. It's inelegant." Tiernan shakes his head at both of us, then pokes at the foodstuffs, selecting a handful of nuts. "Gift cards are worse," Oak says when I do not respond. "I would bring shame on the entire Greenbriar line if I left a gift card." At that, I can't help smiling a little, despite my heavy heart. "You're ridiculous.

No engineer would have dreamed of such an inelegant solution, which goes to illustrate the opportunistic nature of evolution. (As Francis Crick once said, 'God is a hacker, not an engineer.')

The barren branches may appear inelegant: They are, to the cook, the means to make his fire.

We were a quartet of idiots trying to look suave.

Why does inelegant design persist for so long? This is called the legacy problem, and it will come up several times in this book. Too many devices use the existing standard—that is the legacy. If the symmetrical cylindrical battery were changed, there would also have to be a major change in a huge number of products. The new batteries would not work in older equipment, nor the old batteries in new equipment. Microsoft

In fact, biology is chaos. Biological systems are the product not of logic but of evolution, an inelegant process.

How could a person be clumsy, just standing? And yet she felt she was, as clumsy as one of those blocks of boxwood being seasoned there, unshaped, indelicate.

What is especially striking and remarkable is that in fundamental physics a beautiful or elegant theory is more likely to be right than a theory that is inelegant.