The quote:
"Simplicity is the Ultimate Sophistication."
"What we meant by that was that when you first attack a problem it seems really simple because you don't understand it. Then when you start to really understand it, you come up with these very complicated solutions because it's really hairy. Most people stop there. But a few people keep burning the midnight oil and finally understand the underlying principles of the problem and come up with an elegantly simple solution for it. But very few people go the distance to get there. "
Should be on every cubicle's wall.
In my experience, most development stops at the "really hairy" stage. Which is why most software only works passably well. Hardware gets faster just to compensate for software getting more complicated and slower.
"What we meant by that was that when you first attack a problem it seems really simple because you don't understand it. Then when you start to really understand it, you come up with these very complicated solutions because it's really hairy. Most people stop there. But a few people keep burning the midnight oil and finally understand the underlying principles of the problem and come up with an elegantly simple solution for it. But very few people go the distance to get there. "
Should be on every cubicle's wall.
In my experience, most development stops at the "really hairy" stage. Which is why most software only works passably well. Hardware gets faster just to compensate for software getting more complicated and slower.