There's another way to look at this though: "When I think about the successful, interesting people I have known in my life, they all have garbage in their hous

There's another way to look at this though: "When I think about the successful, interesting people I have known in my life, they all have garbage in their houses." In other words, perhaps complexity is an unavoidable byproduct of productivity, but the successful keep it under a manageable threshold.