[jjice]

> And to make matters worse: complexity sells better

Well said Dijkstra. Some of the my favorite algorithms are beautifully simple, mostly in the way of being naturally recursive. My compiler course in university involved a lot of recursion, but everything just flowed. Sometimes I'd mindlessly write some code and just assume I'd recurse down the AST, and everything just worked.

Obviously simplicity isn't always achievable in large software, but hopefully there are many simple pieces involved that come together in a clean and concise way.