Value lies in what is hard and non-obvious; the obvious and easy is where low-margin crowds are.

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• Simplicity is about subtracting the obvious and adding the meaningful. JMJohn Maeda11 Jun 2006
• The more things are handed to people, the more value will lie in the ability to do difficult things. KAKris Abdelmessih27 Sept 2026
• Focus and simplicity are worth the work: simple can be harder than complex, because the thinking has to be got clean, but once there one can move mountains. SJSteve Jobs14 May 1998
• The most powerful rule for an exceptional interface is that it feels obvious to use; novelty, minimalism and simplicity are means to that, not the end. JZJulie Zhuo12 May 2025
• Simple and easy are different things, and treating simplicity as ease of use is a mistake. RHRich Hickeyc. 2011

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