Engineers should be designing machines and systems which are as simple as possible (i.e. all the complexity is essential). The more complex a system is, the m

Engineers should be designing machines and systems which are as simple as possible (i.e. all the complexity is essential). The more complex a system is, the more likely it is to fail, and you don't want that. In my experience, many software developers build unnecessarily complex systems for various reasons which are well known (i.e. much of the complexity is accidental).