Any intelligent fool can make things bigger, more complex, and more violent. It takes a touch of genius — and a lot of courage — to move in the opposite direction.
Albert Einstein
Is Ward Cunningham a smart guy? After all, Ward’s most visible contribution to the world is the wiki. And that’s so simple that it’s obvious, right?
It’s hard to create something simple that people will want to use. It takes a lot of intelligence to figure out what features to leave out. Here are some of my favorite simple things and why I love them:
- iPod + iTunes, it grabs new content automagically for me and it just shows up
- vim, it’s a great text editor and nothing else
- NetNewsWire, keyboard navigation of feeds and integration with iTunes
- irb, a great prototyping environment for Ruby
- NUnit + TestDriven.net, simple test framework with a simple user interface
What’s your favorite simple things?
