Here’s a great thought to start off my day. I think it applies beyond the obvious complexity of computing.
David Gelerntner on Beauty in Computing.
David Gelerntner, a computer scientist at Yale, perhaps put it best when he said, “Beauty is more important in computing than anywhere else in technology because software is so complicated. Beauty is the ultimate defence against complexity.”
Quoted in the Economist article “Unix’s founding fathers” (via Dan Hill)