“If something is too complex to understand, it must be wrong”

An article, posted about 9 years ago filed in coding, quote, inspiration, simplicity, software & complexity.

While looking for the source of another quote (something along the lines of “If it takes you too long, you’re probably doing it wrong”, which I recall having picked up in the Rails community (if you recognize it, please let me know)) I found the following bold statement. We’re not talking science here, we’re talking software development (actually this guy is talking Java Spring development):

“If something is too complex to understand, it must be wrong”

from Arjen Poutsma

Some background on this quote can be found on this Xebia website.

Yep, I’m working on a project that seems to have grown way too complex for what it actually should have been.

Happy coding ;)

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