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Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?
– The Law of Conservation of Complexity, by Larry Tesler (circa 1984)
Related:
- Waterbed Theory @ C2
- Essential versus Accidental Complexity, in The Mythical Man-Month.