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Thursday, November 01, 2007
  Simplicity and Complexity


Simple things should be simple. Complex things should be possible.
Alan Kay

To make something generic is to make the simple things complex.
Adam Keys

Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
Alan Perlis
 

Comments on “Simplicity and Complexity:
this is in connection with your Poll
on the side bar . you asked for suggestion to improve the blog . i have two

#1.Please put a Search box on template.

#2.Please write more about Business , People Management aspect of Sw. Engg

My apologies for using your comment system to communicate .
 
Along the same lines, the first few lines of the Zen Of Python says this:

- Beautiful is better than ugly.
- Explicit is better than implicit.
- Simple is better than complex.
- Complex is better than complicated.

right on.
 
There are some great quotes here, taken from Ian Brodie's Thinking Forth:

http://homepage.mac.com/ruske/ruske/C148946258/E487380918/index.html
 
Simplicity means the achievement of maximum effect with minimum means.
— Dr. Koichi Kawana
 
i agree iphone is simple :)
 




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