Have you thought, not only about the airplane but whatever man builds, that all of man's industrial efforts, all his computation and calculations, all the nights spent working over draughts and blueprints, invariably culminates in the production of a things whose sole and guiding principle is the ultimate principle of simplicity.
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curves of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elements purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen, In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer any things to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
It is as if there were a natural law which ordained that to achieve this end, to refine the curves of a piece of furniture, or a ship's keel or the fuselage of an airplane, until gradually it partakes of the elements purity of the curve of the human breast or shoulder, there must be experimentation of several generations of craftsmen, In anything at all, perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer any things to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away, when a body has been stripped down to its nakedness.
