<img attachment="niklaus_wirth.jpg" align="right"><bq author="Niklaus Wirth" date="1995" href="https://cr.yp.to/bib/1995/wirth.pdf" source="cr.yp.to" caption="A Plea for Lean Software">To some, complexity equals power. […] Increasingly, people seem to misinterpret complexity as sophistication, which is baffling—the incomprehensible should cause suspicion rather than admiration.</bq>