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Just linguistically. The going back between hard and simple. There probably isn't a better way to articulate it oddly enough. :)
by jayfuerstenberg 15y ago
Just linguistically. The going back between hard and simple. There probably isn't a better way to articulate it oddly enough. :)
- espeed 15y agoRick Hickey recently gave a talk entitled "Simple Made Easy" (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3135185 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3135185) where he contrasts simple and easy. Jobs' quote jumped out at me because I was thinking about this concept the other day while on a run, after watching Hickey's talk. Simplicity (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simplicity) is the result of understanding. Einstein knew this. He spent the last 30 years of his life chasing a simple equation, "perhaps no more than one inch long," that would explain all physical phenomena. "If you can't explain it simply, you don't understand it well enough." - Einstein
- jayfuerstenberg 15y agoThanks, I'll check out the talk. I saw that Einstein quote the other day. I probably don't understand enough to explain things that simply.