On Tue, Sep 25, 2012 at 6:46 PM, Alan McKinnon <alan.mckin...@gmail.com> wrote: > On Tue, 25 Sep 2012 22:56:59 +0100 > Peter Humphrey <pe...@humphrey.ukfsn.org> wrote: > >> On Tuesday 25 September 2012 20:06:15 Neil Bothwick wrote: >> >> > Everything should be made as simple as possible, but no simpler. >> >> That's a version of Occam's Razor, isn't it? Otherwise known as "Do >> not complicate beyond necessity." >> > > It's a tautology. > > You cannot make something any simpler than the simplest you can > possibly make it, so the last "but no simpler" is redundant
The "but no simpler" is there as a reminder that it's possible to over-simplify. -- :wq
