Simplicity is a great virtue but it requires hard work to achieve it and education to appreciate it. And to make matters worse: complexity sells better.

— Edsger W. Dijkstra, On the nature of Computing Science (1984)

Source: http://www.cs.utexas.edu/users/EWD/transcriptions/EWD08xx/EWD896.html

From his 1984 EWD note on the nature of computing science.

Topics: simplicity