The Catflap Principle

"It is a rare mind indeed that can render the hitherto nonexistent blindingly obvious"

• Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency (Douglas Adams)

This quote is from just after Dirk has related the (apocryphal) story of how Isaac Newton invented the catflap.

True and valuable simplicity, in retrospect, always seems obvious - but may take much deep thinking and insight to arrive at.

Here are some resources relating to our quest for simplicity in software development"

Talks:

• Seeking Simplicity - Phil Nash
• Simple Made Easy - Rich Hickey

Other resources

• The Monkey Business Illusion (video)
• The Design Of Everyday Things
• The Law Of Leaky Abstractions
• Abstraction
• This is why you shouldn't interrupt a programmer