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9 October 2007 @ 9pm

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Making the simple complex

Newton’s Third Law of Physics: All forces occur in pairs, and these two forces are equal in magnitude and opposite in direction.

Newton’s Third Law, applied to software: To make something generic is to make the simple things complex.


2 Comments

Posted by
Reg Braithwaite
1 November 2007 @ 8am

Nice observation, I hope you don’t mind my quoting you:

http://weblog.raganwald.com/2007/11/simplicity-and-complexity.html


Posted by
Adam Keys
5 November 2007 @ 12am

I certainly don’t mind getting quoted next to Alan Kay. Thanks!


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