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Choosing what is easy over what is simple buys speed only at the start, the way only a runner in a very short race can sprint from the gun.

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Subjectsimplicity
What this subject means

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

On the topicWhy 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 Rich Hickey actually said

  1. Rich Hickey Creator of the Clojure programming language and of Datomic
    So, what kind of runner uh can run as fast as they possibly can from the very start of a race? Right. Only somebody who runs really short races.

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    ↗"Simple Made Easy" - Rich Hickey (2011)youtube.com

    c. 2011 · video · 1h 01m · spoken · machine transcript

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