The struggle between profitless simplicity and profitable complexity is eternal in the world of software

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• A program's simplicity of structure does not limit how sophisticated the computation it performs can be. SWStephen Wolfram21 Jul 2026simplicity
• After a decade of Swiss minimalism, design is about to swing back to something far more expressive. DFDylan Field16 Oct 2025simplicity
• An inability to explain something simply often reflects not yet understanding the problem well enough to compress it. VBVicki Boykis12 Aug 2026simplicity
• Convergence and simplicity make for poor goals in technology; aim for clarity instead. FCFrank Chimero18 Feb 2015simplicity
• Floating-point printing and parsing algorithms are converging toward an optimal solution. RCRuss Cox19 Jan 2026simplicity

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