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A design has to be kept simple for reliability and intellectual control, but nobody yet knows how to reach simplicity systematically.

Drawn from what Edsger W. Dijkstra said

What these subjects mean

design How things should be made and judged: what makes a design good, who should do the designing, and what an interface is for.

simplicity Less, but better: reduction as the way to make something good, and the argument about when it goes too far.

Why is it harder to simplify than to add?under our view: Simple is hard: it takes more thought and time than complex, and complex is rewarded more

What Edsger W. Dijkstra actually said

  1. Edsger W. Dijkstra Dutch computer scientist (1930 to 2002)
    we know that for the sake of reliability and intellectual control we have to keep the design simple and disentangled, and in individual cases we have been remarkably successful, but we do not know how to reach simplicity in a systematic manner.

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