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Complexity vs sophistication

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Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling – the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.
–Niklaus Wirth

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“An idiot admires complexity, a genius admires simplicity.”—Terry Davis

“[CENSORED]”—also Terry Davis

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