Simpler Is Better

by Justin McHood

in Justin McHood

From time to time, everyone is faced with a problem where the potential solutions are either simple or complex and you must choose one or the other.

I don’t know exactly what this means, but experience tells me that simpler is usually better.

The simpler the solution, the higher the chance of it actually working.

As I look back, the times that I chose the more complicated solution seem to be the times where the plan-of-attack got convoluted somehow and the ultimate solution to the problem got lost somewhere in the blur of life.

Simpler is better.

Or, at least – it seems that way to me in hindsight.

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1 Evo Terra January 12, 2010 at 5:55 am

It means you’ve discovered Occam’s Razor: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Occam%27s_razor

Welcome to the world of critical thinking!

2 Justin January 12, 2010 at 9:24 am

I need more smart friends.

You mean I wasn’t the first one to think of this?

Crap.

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