IT Essence

"Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler."

is attributed to Albert Einstein ...

... but what he actually said

(apparently, on June 10, 1933) ...

"It can scarcely be denied that the supreme goal of all theory is to make the irreducible basic elements as simple and as few as possible without having to surrender the adequate representation of a single datum of experience."

So, in the saying of it, did he ignore his own advice?

Whatever. At IT Essence we agree:

Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.

But it's not quite as simple as that ......

"Simplicity" depends on your context as well. What you want/need.

And that's not the same for everyone, in every situation.

At IT Essence we strive for:

Actionable Situational Simplicity