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