2: A particular theory or conception of beauty or art: a particular taste for or approach to what is pleasing to the senses and especially sight.

3: Plural : a pleasing appearance or effect : BEAUTY

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A designer knows he has achieved perfection not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away.

-- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, French writer, aviator

When I'm working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong.

-- R. Buckminster Fuller

Though we travel the world over to find the beautiful, we must carry it with us or we find it not.

-- Ralph Waldo Emerson

In school we used to argue about "style" and "shiny design" and try to claim that all we cared about was The Concept, and not having a cool style all one's own. But I was in denial.

Nowadays, I'm a little more willing to admit that I wish I had a cool style, all my own. Maybe it would be a bad thing and I'd wish I could break out of it if I did have it. Here's the proper wish, well-considered in advance of the genie... More