If you can't reduce a difficult engineering problem to just one 8-1/2 x 11-inch sheet of paper, you will probably never understand it.

— Ralph Brazelton Peck, Ralph B. Peck, Educator and Engineer — The Essence of the Man (2007)

Quoted in a 2007 book about Peck by Dunnicliff and Young.

Topics: software engineering, simplicity