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• KISS Principle: /kis' prin'si-pl/ n. "Keep It Simple, Stupid".
  A maxim often invoked when discussing design to fend off {creeping featurism} and control development complexity....
• KISS Keep It Simple Stupid.......
• creeping elegance: n. Describes a tendency for parts of a design to become {elegant} past the point of diminishing retu
  something which often happens at the expense of the less interesting parts of the design, the schedule, and other things deemed important in the {Real World}....
• econd-system effect: n. (sometimes, more euphoniously
  `second-system syndrome') When one is designing the successor to a relatively small, elegant, and successful system, there is a tendency to become grandiose in one's success and design an {elephantine} feature-laden monstrosity....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• Keep the golden mean -- Publius Syrus (42 BC) -- Maxim 1072
• creeping featurism /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. [common] 1.
  Describes a systematic tendency to load more chrome and features onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed....
• creeping featurism: /kree'ping fee'chr-izm/ n. 1. Describes a systematic tendency to load more {chrome} and {feature}s onto systems at the expense of whatever elegance they may have possessed when originally designed.
  See also {feeping creaturism}. "You know, the main problem with {BSD} UNIX has always been creeping featurism....
• pnambic /p*-nam'bik/ [Acronym from the scene in the film version of "The Wizard of Oz" in which the true nature of the wizard is first discovered
  Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain....