On: On over-engineering; finding the right balance

[chasd00]

I don’t remember who said it but there’s a quote about communications protocols that goes “it’s not finished when there’s nothing left to add, it’s finished when there’s nothing left to take away”. I use that a lot in discussions with my teams.

[thequux → chasd00]

It was originally written by Antoine de Saint Exupéry, on the topic of airplane design

[m000 → chasd00]

I'm not sure who said it, but I've definitely heard it in a Civilization game (Civ V, IIRC).