What Larry Tesler thinks about simplicity
American computer scientist in human-computer interaction (1945 to 2020); at Xerox PARC he worked on Smalltalk and the Gypsy word processor and, with Tim Mott, developed cut, copy and paste and modeless editing; later worked at Apple, Amazon and Yahoo.
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Their wordsEvery application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?