>My gripe is with the way they sell it as a way of life. I think it is fair to classify minimalism as a way of life, because simplification heuristics are intr

>My gripe is with the way they sell it as a way of life. I think it is fair to classify minimalism as a way of life, because simplification heuristics are intrinsically broad in scope. In other words, it is not possible for minimalism to not be a way of life, because adding information to specify the domain to which minimalism applies would be decidedly unminimalistic. If anyone is interested in real debate on this topic simply read the wiki on Occam's Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occams_razor I generally find myself in support of Einstein's Constraint: >Everything should be kept as simple as possible, but no simpler.