"There are two ways of constructing a software design; one way is to
make it so simple that there are obviously no deficiencies, and the
other way is to make it so complicated that there are no obvious
deficiencies. The first method is far more difficult."  So said
Tony Hoare, but where and when?

[Charles Moore]

[KISS]


A nice essay by Leslie Lamport: [http://research.microsoft.com/users/lamport/pubs/future-of-computing.ps].
(Ironic that this is by the guy who wrote LaTeX, of all things, but it's a good essay nonetheless.)