Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication
"Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication"–Leonardo da Vinci
Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler—Einstein - Brooks' No Silver Bullet essay touches to the same thing. - Essential (irreducible) and Accidental (reducible) complexity
"Perfection is achieved not when there is nothing more to add, but when there is nothing left to take away."–Antoine de Saint-Exupéry - also see What can we remove? by Steph Ango (archived)
"Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better."–Edsger Dijkstra - also see Merchants of Complexity - saw the quote in https://1mb.club/about/
"Simplicity is a prerequisite for reliability."–Edsger Dijkstra
"Simple can be harder than complex. You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple."–Steve Jobs
"You can always recognize truth by its beauty and simplicity."–Richard Feynman
Elon Musk's 5 step engineering process rightly involves simplification and removal of non-essentials - step 2: delete parts - step 3: simplify and optimize
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- If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough –Einstein — [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- Jonathan Blow on Simplicity (archived) — - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- Manifesto — - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- Minimalism — - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- SecureGenomics (Project) — - [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- Simplicity in programming is paramount — [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]
- be unreasonably simplistic & minimal — [[Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication]]