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The KISS Principle and Occam’s Razor (also written as Ockham's Razor)
Description:
The Kiss Principle refers to the acronym for Keep It Simple, Stupid or the more polite version, Keep It Short and Simple.
There are various explanations as to what the principle actually means, but all have the key message that simplicity should be the goal and that unnecessary complexity should be avoided.
Others have formulated similar concepts and expressed similar ideas in the past:
Albert Einstein: “Everything should be made as simple as possible but no simpler.”
Leonardo Da Vinci: “Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication.”
Antoine de Saint Exupery: "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away".
