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The Salmon of Doubt · 2002

Douglas Adams

There is no problem so complicated that you can't find a very simple answer to it if you look at it right ... Or put it another way, "The future of computer power is pure simplicity."

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The speaker argues that even a complicated problem can have a simple answer when approached in the right way. They extend that confidence to computing, presenting simplicity as the direction of future progress. The statement values a clear approach to complexity without supplying a method for finding one.

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