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Gall's Law: But First, Simplify
- “Risk means more things can happen than will happen.” - Elroy DimsonGall’s Law: “A complex system that works invariably evolved from a simple system that worked. A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work.”
from Makes You Think by Morgan Housel
sari added
- design as a quest to discover a simple set of primitives, a small alphabet for generating a system. To paraphrase Gall’s Law: Simple rules produce complex behavior. Complex rules produce stupid behavior.
from All you need is links by Subconscious
Keely Adler added
As John Gall wrote in [Gall03], “A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.”
from Growing Object-Oriented Software, Guided by Tests (Addison-Wesley Signature Series (Beck)) by Steve Freeman