I think complexity is a necessary part of the equation, but you can push it into different places. The key is to keep the APIs and libraries simple. Unix got

I think complexity is a necessary part of the equation, but you can push it into different places. The key is to keep the APIs and libraries simple. Unix got it right. Lots of small utilities that are designed to be chained together. It seems to me that we will loose to software in this respect ultimately. We just can't fit everything we need in our short term memory sometimes.