Causes Quote by Niklaus Wirth

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges, and it…

— Ray Ozzie

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

— Jaron Lanier

Most software has a tiny essence that justifies its existence, everything after that is wants and desires mistaken for needs and necessities.

— David Heinemeier Hansson

“Continually adding features to software turns out to be equally unsustainable.”

— Giles Colborne

We now know that something between 85 and 90 percent of most software product features are unwanted and unneeded by customers. That is an…

— Steve Blank

The cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes the addition of an obstacle…

— John Carmack

Simplicity takes time, patience & practice. Complexity offers too many excuses for failure

— Dean Cavanagh

Adding last-minute features, whether in response to competitive pressure, as a developer's pet feature, or on the whim of management, causes more bugs in…

— John Robbins

The most fundamental problem in software development is complexity. There is only one basic way of dealing with complexity: divide and conquer

— Bjarne Stroustrup

The important point is that the cost of adding a feature isn't just the time it takes to code it. The cost also includes…

— John Carmack

People are building the software and so having the pieces be such that a single person understands all the tradeoffs and everything that's going…

— Bill Gates

Computers in general, and software in particular, are much more difficult than other kinds of technology for most people to grok, and they overwhelm…

— Om Malik