The simplest solutions are often the cleverest. They are also usually wrong.
While a simple solution might be wrong in a lot of cases. An elegant solution is often simple – in implementation and use, if not design.
My personal favourite restatement of this universal truth is:
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.
You are both right of course. I’ve not been able to track down who said “I am sorry to write such a long letter, I didn’t have the time to write a short one” and the same is true when “simple” means “elegant”.
Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Ben
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While a simple solution might be wrong in a lot of cases. An elegant solution is often simple – in implementation and use, if not design.
My personal favourite restatement of this universal truth is:
Complex problems have simple, easy to understand, wrong answers.
You are both right of course. I’ve not been able to track down who said “I am sorry to write such a long letter, I didn’t have the time to write a short one” and the same is true when “simple” means “elegant”.
Thanks for dropping by and commenting.
Ben