“It is important to emphasize the value of simplicity and elegance, for complexity has a way of compounding difficulties and as we have seen, creating mistakes. My definition of elegance is the achievement of a given functionality with a minimum of mechanism and a maximum of clarity.”

—  Fernando J. Corbató

Source: On Building Systems That Will Fail (1991), p. 80

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