Einstein argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comforts the software engineer.

— Fred Brooks, No Silver Bullet (1986)

Source: http://www.virtualschool.edu/mon/SoftwareEngineering/BrooksNoSilverBullet.html

From his 1987 essay "No Silver Bullet".

Topics: software engineering, simplicity