At first it’s simple, then it gets complicated and simple again

When you start looking at a problem and it seems really simple, you don’t really understand the complexity of the problem.

Then you get into the problem, and you see that it’s really complicated, and you come up with all these convoluted solutions. That’s sort of the middle, and that’s where most people stop…

But the really great person will keep on going and find the key, the underlying principle of the problem – and come up with an elegant, really beautiful solution that works. That’s what we wanted to do with Mac.

Steve Jobs, 1984, taken from Peter Merholz’ book “Subject to Change”

Since it is great quote, I entirely copied and pasted the text from the following link.

http://mortenjust.com/2009/07/20/at-first-its-simple-then-it-gets-complicated-and-simple-again/

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