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• GUIs normally make it simple to accomplish simple actions and impossible to accomplish complex actions.
  -- Doug Gwyn (22/Jun/91 in comp.unix.wizards)...
• Simple tasks aren't. -- Schmidt's law
• Quote #610 A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked.
  -- John Gall...
• Quote #472 If we make peaceful revolution impossible, we make violent revolution inevitiable.
  -- John F. Kennedy...
• Quote #541 There exist tasks which cannot be done by more than 10 men or fewer than 100.
  -- Steele's Law...
• Quote #653 John von Neumann draws attention to what seemed to him a contrast.
  He remarked that for simple mechanisms, it is often easier to describe how they work than what they do, while for more complicated mechanisms, it is usually the other way around....
• Make plans as complex as necessary, but give simple orders.
• Quote #48 "For every complex question, there is a simple answer-- and it's wrong.
  -- H.L. Mencke...
• It is simple to make things complex, but complex to make things simple. -- Meyer's 3rd Law