Jan 4, 2015
There are two ways of constructing a software design: One way is to make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult. It demands the same skill, devotion, insight, and even inspiration as the discovery of the simple physical laws which underlie the complex phenomena of nature. . . . The price of reliability is the pursuit of the utmost simplicity. It is a price which the very rich find most hard to pay.
C.A.R. Hoare, 'The Emperor's Old Clothes' (1980)