Larry Tesler
American computer scientist in human-computer interaction (1945 to 2020); at Xerox PARC he worked on Smalltalk and the Gypsy word processor and, with Tim Mott, developed cut, copy and paste and modeless editing; later worked at Apple, Amazon and Yahoo.
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Every application has an irreducible amount of complexity; the only question is who has to deal with it: the user, the application developer or the platform developer.
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?
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Every application has an irreducible amount of complexity; the only question is who has to deal with it: the user, the application developer or the platform developer.
Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?
The Law of Conservation of Complexity by 9 Aug 2011
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