
“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”
“Any darn fool can make something complex; it takes a genius to make something simple.”
“Any fool can make something complicated. It takes a genius to make it simple.”
"Small is Beautiful", an essay, in The Radical Humanist, Vol. 37, No. 5 (August 1973), p. 22 http://babel.hathitrust.org/cgi/pt?id=uc1.32106019678082;view=1up;seq=230
Actually written by E. F. Schumacher in a 1973 essay titled "Small is Beautiful" which appeared in The Radical Humanist: volume 37, p. 22 http://books.google.com/books?id=oA0IAQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor. Earliest published source found on Google Books attributing this to Einstein is BMJ: The British Medical Journal, volume 319, 23 October 1999, p. 1102 http://books.google.com/books?id=bQk7AQAAIAAJ&q=%22more+violent%22#search_anchor. It was attributed to Einstein on the internet somewhat before that, for example in this 1997 post http://groups.google.com/group/alt.weemba/msg/2bbf56ab8f4f757d?hl=en.
Misattributed
Source: In Defense of Chaos: The Chaology of Politics, Economics and Human Action, (2013), p. 90
“The function of good software is to make the complex appear to be simple.”
Attributed to Booch in: Frank H. P. Fitzek et al. (2010) Qt for Symbian. p. xv
“Life is not complex. We are complex. Life is simple, and the simple thing is the right thing.”
Source: 1980s, Against The Grain (1986), Ch. 10, The Critic as Clown