An advantage claimed for the approach is its allowing formulation of theoretical relationships with rigor, generality, and simplicity.
To be of practical use, specification and modeling languages for software design need to combine rigor with abstraction and simplicity, and be supported by automated design verification tools that require minimal human intervention.
Bethe's craftsmanship was an amalgam of what he had learned from Sommerfeld and from Fermi, combining the best of both: the thoroughness and rigor of Sommerfeld and the clarity and simplicity of Fermi.
He later rejected logical simplicity and rigor and focused instead on Gestalt ideas about figure-ground reversals and context, the ambiguity of family resemblance, and the function of details of everyday language.
And yet, over time, they've settled on their own set of virtues: rigor, elegance, simplicity, inventiveness, gentleness, and wit.
In sum, we have described the design and methods of GEMS and our efforts to achieve scientific rigor while maintaining simplicity and standardization.
There is a relentless search in these works for emotional honesty and intellectual rigor, and at the same time for reconciliation, simplicity and, as in the title of his last opera, "a quiet place," where he could be generous, vulnerable, simple.
"He liked elegance and simplicity.
And simplicity, we're always looking for simplicity.
