... while we all know that unmastered complexity is at the root of the misery, we do not know what degree of simplicity can be obtained, nor to what extent the intrinsic complexity of the whole design has to show up in the interfaces. We simply do not know yet the limits of disentanglement. We do not know yet whether intrinsic intricacy can be distinguished from accidental intricacy.
-- E. W. Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, Mar 2001, Vol. 44, No. 3
-- E. W. Dijkstra, Communications of the ACM, Mar 2001, Vol. 44, No. 3
Related:
- Barclay: "Do you suppose this has changed the way people think about me?"
LaForge:
"Well, to tell you the truth, Reg, we don't know what... - Forgive us, for we know not what we do.
Not that we CARE or anything... - What do the lemmings know that we
don't... - Much of the excitement we get out of our work
is that we don't really know what we are doing.
-- E.... - A nation which does not remember what it was yesterday,
does not know what it is today, nor what it is trying... - Why do we do it?
WE DON'T KNOW... - We are here on earth to do good for others. What the others are here
for,
I don't know. -- W. H. Auden... - We know nothing about motivation.
All we can do is write books about it... - Do we know much about women? Do we? We don't. We know when they're happy,
we know when they're crying, we know when they're pissed...
