Deletionism

Wikipedia, in addition to collecting all manner of information both inane and useful, is also coining its own terms. (At least they are self-referential, I suppose.) This one, 'deletionism', is like 'hipster', in a way. Most would never refer to themselves as such, but seem to delight in deeming others to be worthy of the title. Read more about what Wikipedia says about its own term here, and all about the warring factions of deletionists and inclusionists.

Sam Anderson, at the end of his essay, "An Accidental, Experimental Masterpiece", says:

“We need to remember the value of nothing. It’s like breathing: you can’t inhale all day. We need to learn to make peace with the information we don’t know, to embrace the zeroes, to relearn the pleasures of hunger, need, interruption, restraint. We need to work up our ignorance muscles. We need to organize our internal absences to create meaning. We are responsible, in other words, now and forever, for our own deletionism.”

Antoine de Saint-Exupery says it this way:
"Perfection is finally attained not when there is no longer anything to add, but when there is no longer anything to take away."

Yes.