“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
Via Signal vs. Noise
The more people we have on our team, the less room there is in the elevator and the more complicated everything gets.
- David Karp
Tumblr’s building does have a tiny elevator. When I stopped by a few weeks ago somehow we were all able to squeeze in there along with Pasquale D’Silva. Well done Tumblr team for recovering from the short (relatively) outage. I can only imagine how intense the last 48 hours have been for the whole team.
Via Startup Quote
When your “Make sharing easy” widget needs a search box to sift through all 300 options, it may not be as easy as you think.
— Scott U. at 37signals
“Our opportunity, as designers, is to learn how to handle the complexity, rather than shy away from it, and to realize that the big art of design is to make complicated things simple.”
Tim Parsey
Complexity Graphics
Created by russian designer and illustrator Tatiana Plakhova. View the full set of images on Behance.
