[Sigia-l] Simplicity

[Donna Maurer]

Simple and simpler are quite different things. One is vague, the other 
is relative...

donna

Ziya Oz wrote:
> Somebody emailed me about a quote:
>
> "Accept the fact that some things can never be made simple."
>
> which I believe is from John Maeda's book, "The Laws of Simplicity."
>
> <http://mitpress.mit.edu/catalog/item/default.asp?ttype=2&tid=10933>
> <http://tinyurl.com/3385od>
>
> I haven't read it, so I couldn't comment on his take. But I spent the entire
> weekend looking at a 200MB Visio file of a very un-simple business process,
> which when plotted would cover an entire conference wall. My job is to
> drastically simplify it. I haven't personally seen many things that are so
> inherently un-simple that they can never be made simple. Have you?
>   


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Donna Maurer
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