A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that worked. The inverse proposition also appears to be true: A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be made to work. You have to start over, beginning with a working simple system.
—John Gall

I’m thinking I keep running into this term for a reason – that the world is becoming increasingly complex in a negative way and that we need to start living, working, designing, thinking, etc in terms of much simpler ideas and practices. After all we’re interacting with a highly complex world that at the moment seems not to be working as it should Perhaps it’s time to scrap it and start over with something really simple.