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• Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
• Do not simplify the design of a program if a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
  ...A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work....
• Make plans as complex as necessary, but give simple orders.
• Meyer's Law: It is a simple task to make things complex, but a complex task to make them simple.
• It is simple to make things complex, but complex to make things simple. -- Meyer's 3rd Law