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“Simple can be harder than complex: You have to work hard to get your thinking clean to make it simple.“ Steve Jobs

• srtjstjsj 6y ago
  Why do people put celebrity names on common sense proverbs just because the celebrity said it once?
  • waynesonfire 6y ago
    Why not? Should they instead quote their neighbor Joe Six Pack? This is a technique called Appeal to Authority and you can read about it on wikipedia.
    • throwaway2048 6y ago
      You forgot to cite and link the wikipedia page
    • tabtab 6y ago
      Because S. Jobs got rich via multiple market-changing products. It's as proof-is-in-the-pudding as you can get. There are not many practical alternatives. Careful scientific studies would be nice, but nobody is paying for them so far. Re: "technique called Appeal to Authority" More like "appeal to merit". That being said, good factoring takes work. You need both raw logic and math-like ability to identify patterns and propose reworks, and also you need to understand the domain so you know what can be chopped, reworked, and/or consolidated without harming operations. Often when talking to the subject matter experts, I say something like, "I see a pattern here, but before we rely on it in the new system, how likely is it to change in the future, and what kind of changes are likely?"