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- From: s1mbm@isuvax.iastate.edu
- Subject: Re: Simple one
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- References: <schwartz.725040572@cunews>,<1992Dec22.171747.10938@news.media.mit.edu>
- Date: Mon, 28 Dec 1992 13:08:28 GMT
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- In article <1992Dec22.171747.10938@news.media.mit.edu>, minsky@media.mit.edu (Marvin Minsky) writes:
- >In article <schwartz.725040572@cunews> schwartz@alfred.carleton.ca (Saul Schwartz) writes:
- >>Does anyone know the quotation to the effect that explanations should
- >>be made as simple as possible but no simpler?
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- >That's the first line in my book, "The Society of Mind," as a
- >quotation attributed to Einstein.
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- >The funny thing is that I have a corredpondence with the archivists of
- >the Einstein collection (at Boston University). They can't find the
- >source anywhere, and I can't remember where I got it. I'm sure I
- >didn't make it up, but I certainly could have paraphrased it from
- >something else. And I did hang around at the Institute for Advanced
- >Studies in the early '50s when I was a grad student at Princeton.
- >
- >So, can anyone else remember seeing this somewhere?
- >
- >..
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- Wouldn't the quote be a version of Occam's Razor?
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- michael mcdonald
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