Friday, August 25, 2006

Good Enough --

So, just about everything that can be improved, is being improved. If you define "improved" to mean more features, more buttons, more choices, more power, more cost.

Good enough can be good enough, and in some cases, better than "improved."

Variations on this advice can be found in the Wikipedia entry for the KISS Principle.

• "Keep It Super Simple";
• "Keep It Simple and Solid", in animation;
• "Keep It Simple, Sweetie", gentler, or perhaps more patronising;
• "Keep It Small and Simple";
• "Keep It Simple, Smartguy";
• "Keep It Simple and Stupid", often used when discussing artificial intelligence;
• "Keep It Small and Scalable", often used when discussing IT;
• "Keep It Short and Simple", a common marketing maxim for sales presentations;
• "Keep It Short and Sweet";
• "Keep It Simple and Sweet";
• "Keep It Simple, Keep It Stupid", which produces the acronym KISKIS;
• "Keep It Simple; Make It Fun", a term used in scouting;
• "Keep It Stupidly Simple";
• "Keep It Simple, Silly", another kinder phrasing;
• "Keep It Stupid, Simple", the joking version;
• "Keep It Simple, Shithead", the dysphemistic version.
  
  Or the long KISSSS:
• * "Keep It Short, Simple, Small, and Self-contained"

Of course, my preference is the classic, "Keep It Simple, Stupid."

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