> The problem is--in my experience anyway--that too many people equate complexity with quality. I find that a strange attitude. Complex systems are by definiti

> The problem is--in my experience anyway--that too many people equate complexity with quality. I find that a strange attitude. Complex systems are by definition harder to reason about, and therefore guaranteed to contain more bugs given the same amount of mental effort. Sometimes complexity is unavoidable, but in general I find myself attracted to simpler systems, and consider that a sign of good engineering rather than the other way around.