Michael Perkins

Complexity kills. It sucks the life out of developers, it makes products difficult to plan, build and test, it introduces security challenges and it causes end-user and administrator frustration.
- Ray Ozzie

Controlling complexity is the essence of computer programming.
– Brian Kernigan

Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling - the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration. Possibly this trend results from a mistaken belief that using a somewhat mysterious device confers an aura of power on the user.
– Niklaus Wirth

Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.
– Leonardo da Vinci