From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 To: 9fans@cse.psu.edu From: "Douglas A. Gwyn" Message-ID: <3A1F5E48.2030500@null.net> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii; format=flowed Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit References: Subject: Re: [9fans] Simple Date: Mon, 27 Nov 2000 09:40:30 +0000 Topicbox-Message-UUID: 329deaa0-eac9-11e9-9e20-41e7f4b1d025 nigel@9fs.org wrote: > Einstein understood it, apparently, when he said > "Everything should be made as simple as possible, > but not one bit simpler." That's not an exact quote, but close enough.. > I can't comment if this applied to his theories. What Einstein was addressing was physical theory, and the point was that an optimum theory would take into account *all* relevant facts while explaining them in the most direct way possible. It doesn't have much to do with software design, but if you tried to stretch the analogy it would mean that software should meet *all* specified requirements in the most direct way possible.