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	Simplicity

willhelm

7-19-2008 4:12 PM

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<div style="margin: 12px 0px; font-family: arial; color: #333333; background: #ffffff; border: solid 4px #e5e5e5; width: 100%; clear: left;"><div class="CM_CTB_Content_Wrap" style="margin: 0px; padding: 0px;background-color: #ffffff;"><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content.clipmarks.com/blog_embed/80dc6730-04a9-4bd8-93bb-40d24eef005a/C0237EF4-EF5E-41DB-8708-3EF70F45E244/" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4168" href="http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4168" style="font-size: 11px;">www.quoteworld.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quoteworld.org/quotes/4168"><TR><TD colspan="2"><DIV><FONT class="text3">"Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction." - <A href="javascript:copy_to_clipboard('quote.Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent.  It takes a touch of genius -- and a lot of courage -- to move in the opposite direction.');">Copy to Clipboard</A></FONT></DIV>
</TD></TR><TR><TD><FONT class="text3">  --  <B>Albert Einstein</B></FONT></TD></TR></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content9.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3069" href="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3069" style="font-size: 11px;">www.quotedb.com</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://www.quotedb.com/quotes/3069"><FONT class="text">"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication." - <A href="javascript: copy_to_clipboard('quote.text');">Copy to Clipboard</A></FONT>
<FONT class="text">  --  <B>Leonardo da Vinci</B></FONT></blockquote><div style="border-bottom: solid 1px #dcdcdc; white-space: nowrap; margin-bottom: 8px; background-color: #eeeeee ;background-image: url(http://www.clipmarks.com/images/source-bg.gif); background-repeat: repeat-x; height: 24px; line-height: 24px; vertical-align: middle; padding-bottom: 4px; color: #666666; font-size: 10px;" ><a href="http://clipmarks.com/clip-to-blog/" title="see clips that are hot right now"><img src="http://content6.clipmarks.com/images/clip-icon.gif" alt="" width="19" height="19" border="0" style="vertical-align: middle; margin: 0px 4px; display: inline; border: none; float:none;" /></a>clipped from <a title="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occam%27s_razor&oldid=226495966" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occam%27s_razor&oldid=226495966" style="font-size: 11px;">en.wikipedia.org</a></div><blockquote style="text-align: left; padding: 0px 8px; margin: 4px 0px 8px 0px; background: transparent; border: none;" cite="http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Occam%27s_razor&oldid=226495966"><B>Occam's razor</B> (sometimes spelled <B>Ockham's razor</B>) is a principle attributed to the <A title="14th century" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/14th_century">14th-century</A> English <A title="Logician" class="mw-redirect" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Logician">logician</A> and <A title="Franciscan" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan">Franciscan</A> <A title="Friar" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friar">friar</A> <A title="William of Ockham" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_of_Ockham">William of Ockham</A>. The principle states that the explanation of any <A title="Phenomenon" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phenomenon">phenomenon</A> should make as few assumptions as possible, eliminating those that make no difference in the observable predictions of the explanatory <A title="Hypothesis" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypothesis">hypothesis</A> or <A title="Theory" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theory">theory</A>. The principle is often expressed in Latin as the <B>lex parsimoniae</B> ("law of <A title="Parsimony" href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parsimony">parsimony</A>" or "law of succinctness"): <I>"entia non sunt multiplicanda praeter necessitatem"</I>, roughly translated as "entities must not be multiplied beyond necessity".</blockquote></div><div style="margin: 0px 6px 6px 4px;"><table style="font-size: 11px;border-spacing: 0px;padding: 0px;" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" width="100%"><tr><td style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;">&nbsp;</td><td align="right" style="background:transparent;border-width:0px;padding:0px;width:107px" width="107"><a href="http://clipmarks.com/share/C0237EF4-EF5E-41DB-8708-3EF70F45E244/blog/" title="blog or email this clip"><img src="http://content7.clipmarks.com/images/c2b-foot.png" border="0" alt="blog it" width="107" height="17" style="border-width:0px;padding:0px;margin:0px;" /></a></td></tr></table></div></div>

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