Dramatic or boring as it might be, I see the battle between simple and complex play out in our lovely world, pretty much on a daily basis. I am, and has always been, decidedly on the side of simple. Simple is, well, simpler, with less moving parts, increased reliability, easier to understand and repair, and, to me, much more elegant. Be it lines of code, moving mechanical parts of a machine, the design of a child’s game or an essay with fewer words but more meaning, simple always wins.
