Original Posted By: "Bill Church"
The quote that I've seen is "Simplicate and add lightness", and is attributed toWilliam Stout, designer of the Ford Trimotor.>From Wikipedia (so it must be true

):Stout is remembered for his Farberistic engineering credo, "Simplicate and addmore lightness." This would later become best known as the adopted maxim of ColinChapman of Lotus Cars. It actually originated with Stout's designer GordonHooton.In the spirit of the quote, "simplicate" makes more sense than "simplificate",if for no reason other than it has one syllable less.Bill C.Read this topic online here:
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