"Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration."
- Ray Ozzie
And of course, my favorite:
"Simplex sigillum veri (simplicity is the seal of truth)"
- George Polya
"When I am working on a problem, I never think about beauty. I think only of how to solve the problem. But when I have finished, if the solution is not beautiful, I know it is wrong."
ReplyDelete-R Buckminster Fuller
Complexity is very subjective. What's complex to one is simple to another. The most important thing in software development is to create a useful product that can be sold successfully. The best solution is not necessarily the simplest one, but it's the one which works best for the business model it's developed in.
ReplyDeleteInteresting point!
ReplyDelete"Simple doesn't mean easy."
ReplyDelete- Scott Berkun