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Re: KISS -- More Complicated than it Appears?

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Originally Posted by Gray Adams View Post
That's actually a quote from Oliver Wendell Holmes Jr., and was repeated by Einstein.

"I would not give a fig for the simplicity this side of complexity, but I would give my life for the simplicity on the other side of complexity."
In 2007, Woodie applied it to FRC robot designs. There were quite a few complex mechanisms that year, and then there were the simple ones that just appeared complex (looking at 1114 and 1717 as good examples). Those found the simplicity on the other side of complexity, I think...
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