Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

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• Everything is vague to a degree you do not realize till you have tried to make it precise.concept0.836
  Epigraph motivating the necessity of precise semantic specification in programming
• The simplest thing which can be created, in real terms, is that thing which goes furthest to resolve, complete, hence to elaborate and underpin the structure of the world, its wholeness, which exists at that place.claim0.828
  Definition of real simplicity tied to resolving the wholeness.
• Everything you make must be a being.quote0.814
  A core directive from Book 4, p. 95, quoted to define the essence of living process in large buildings.
• These step-by-step processes are very simple, virtually unhampered by concepts or by too much thought about the intricacy of design.claim0.805
  The commonality underlying all the examples of living process.
• A whole makes its parts, rather than the idea that a whole consists of parts.claim0.801
  Alexander's foundational assertion inverting conventional understanding of composition; central to understanding centers and the Fifteen Properties.
• Making something that truly pleases requires hundreds of subtle judgments, each extracting what pleases more within the whole.claim0.795
  From the West Dean experience: the north wall alone required approximately 500 such judgments.
• This question, small and embarrassing as it is, always leads to a different direction from trying to make something 'good.'claim0.795
  The gift-to-God question yields different design choices than aiming for 'goodness.'
• When the process is correct, the creation of life follows almost automatically, without effort.claim0.795