[jghn]

I always point to this talk when engineering debates around simplicity & complexity come up. To me the key point is that "simplicity" and "easy" aren't synonyms.

Many people, when they said "do the simplest thing" they really mean "do the easiest thing". That's fine if that's what you want, but if you find yourself talking past someone else who means "do the simplest thing", that's why.