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> "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong." True in so many situations, Vincenzo.
by shib71 4y ago
> "If the solution is complicated, you are probably wrong."
True in so many situations, Vincenzo.
- kamaal 4y agoThe key to performance is elegance, not battalions of special cases. --Jon Bentley and Doug McIlroy
- hota_mazi 4y ago
- chmod775 4y agoThe statements "If it's complicated, it's probably wrong." and "Sometimes, problems have a complicated solution." are compatible with each other. In fact they're saying the same thing.
- HelloNurse 4y agoIf a problem has a complicated solution, it is a complicated problem to begin with. In this case, we have a much stronger guarantee of simplicity than, for example, with mathematical problems that are easy to explain but might lead into unexplored territory: a missing piece in Panini's treatise is something that he definitely figured out in his time, so it is well within the reach of today's linguists.