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Jaron Lanier

I think complexity is mostly sort of crummy stuff that is there because it's too expensive to change the interface.

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Jaron Lanier is saying that many complicated features in technology exist not because they are necessary, but because updating or simplifying the way users interact with the system costs too much. In other words, complexity often results from avoiding the expense of improving the user interface rather than from a genuine need for those extra parts.

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