Something a bit pretentious wrote in 2000 on the Chaospsych listserv:
“I propose that simplicity and complexity are just one-and-the-same, there is no division, they are inter-related. That sounds a very simplisitic thing to say, I know. You gotta get fractal.” Nothing very original in that. It’s the application where the challenge lies. But I’m ‘getting’ a bit Zen aren’t I?
What came 1st, the chicken or the egg? Personally I don’t think you can’t separate the two; it’s asking what came first is wrong. As two evolved together. It’s really a systems question, for a culture reared on the separation of user and technology; a culture which needs to know which is 1st to know which is dominant. But simply seeing the two as one and same really is a solution to age old systems problem – not that anyone is interested..as the division runs deeper than just a usability problem.
