Comments on: Health IT complexity http://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/health-it-complexity.html Tue, 14 Feb 2012 11:46:00 +0000 hourly 1 By: Chuck Brookshttp://www.kevinmd.com/blog/2008/10/health-it-complexity.html#comment-87854 Chuck Brooks Thu, 30 Oct 2008 20:08:00 +0000 http://clients.emmense.com/kevinmd/2008/10/health-it-complexity.html#comment-87854 Two quotes came to mind that are all too pertinent:<br/><br/>"Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer." -- Niklaus Wirth, father of procedureal programming<br/><br/>"Where you give a software developer a choice of doing the simple thing or the more complicated thing, they go for the more complicated thing..."<br/>Hasso Plattner, Chairman SAP, WSJ 15 May page B3<br/><br/>Chuck Brooks<br/>FutureWare SCG Two quotes came to mind that are all too pertinent:

“Reliable and transparent programs are usually not in the interest of the designer.” — Niklaus Wirth, father of procedureal programming

“Where you give a software developer a choice of doing the simple thing or the more complicated thing, they go for the more complicated thing…”
Hasso Plattner, Chairman SAP, WSJ 15 May page B3

Chuck Brooks
FutureWare SCG

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