• by Sophie Kleber , February 13, 2010

Complexity: highly developed. Human cells, traffic patterns, etc. Simplicity: almost non-existent. Binary, google (complex simplicity), etc. Simple things are reliable, predictable, cheap, high performance or value/cost, potential to serve as building blocks. Academics like complexity, and the world reluctantly puts up with it, when really it wants simplicity. That applies to politics, the health system and other fundamentally broken systems in our society.

"Everything should be as simple as possible, but not simpler." (Einstein) "You know you've achieved perfection in design not when you have nothing more to add, but when you have nothing more to take away." (de Saint-Exupery)