TRUE SIMPLICITY

Intelligent and creative people who use the pattern language often create things which are highly complex, often even hobbit-like or positively grungy. That happens because people are so sick of the sterile 20th century environment, that they feel they must put all kinds of little "bits" all over the place --and, in some people's eyes, the pattern language, and the kind of things it brings to mind, lend support to this mental attitude of "the more funk the better." Funk is a misunderstanding of the nature of pattern language, and of course a misunderstanding of the nature of order. See funky example.

On the other hand sterile simplicity is not good either. That is a kind of conceptual simplicity which does not do good to anyone. See sterile example.

True simplicity is like nature. It is form which does nothing, absolutely nothing that is not required. Yet because every part is perfectly unique, and every part is perfectly adapted to its place, the simplicity is of a deep, enormously complex kind. Yet it is so simple that nothing can be removed or changed. See simple example. This is attainable, by the use of unfolding process based on sequences.

A CHAPTER ON SIMPLICITY

SEQUENCES WHICH CAN HELP YOU ATTAIN TRUE SIMPLICITY

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