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Re: Building Competition LEGO Robots
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Thu, 15 May 2003 21:39:15 GMT
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Chris Magno wrote:
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> > Remember: A robot is complete not when there is nothing left to add,
> > but rather when there is nothing left to take away.
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> I like this quote.
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> I cant live by it... but it is a great quote. whose is it?
It's actually a lazy misquote of Antoine-Marie-Roger de Saint-Exupery:
(wow, have enough names?)
"La perfection est atteinte non quand il ne reste rien a ajouter, mais
quand il ne reste rien a enlever."
And I'm still too lazy to put the accents in the right places...
It's often applied to the construction of a poem. It doesn't literally
mean to take everything away - it means that you should strive to remove
everything which does not lead to your goal.
For instance, I'm famed for building rock-solid (Cinderblock-style)
robots... but really, if I paid more attention and did more planning and
rebuilding, I could make them equally strong but lighter, which in turn
means they'd move faster, take higher gearings, etc.
Jeff E
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