Every complex machine eventually breaks down
Summary
- Simplicity is much easier to maintain and keep running
Details
- Everything complex eventually will break down, and be difficult to repair
References
Quotes
Joshua is just simple,” Moitessier once told an interviewer. “Simplicity is a form of beauty.”24 That principle governed everything for him. “Given a choice between something simple and something complicated,” he wrote, “choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will almost always lead to problems.”25 Only simple things, he noted, can be reliably repaired with what you have on board.