The Philosophy of Simplicity

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication ..... Leonardo da Vinci

There are two ways of constructing a software design. One 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 ..... C.A.R.Hoare
 
It is so Simple to Live, so Simple to Love, so Simple to Smile, so Simple to Win ..... yet so Difficult to be Simple.

Making the simple complicated is commonplace; making the complicated simple is awesomely simple ----- that's creativity


And how it Determines our Approach

I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity but I would give my life for simplicity on the other side of complexity ..... Oliver Wendell Holmes 
 
To move beyond the confusion of complexity, executives must abandon their own constant search for immediately practical, and, paradoxically, seek to understand the underlying ideas and values that have shaped the world they work in. Managers who clamour for how-to instructions are, by definition, stuck on the near side of complexity ..... The Executive's Compass; Business and the Good Society, James O'Toole