Given a choice between something simple and something complicated, choose what is simple without hesitation; sooner or later, what is complicated will almost always lead to problems. Moitessier held the world’s longest recorded nonstop solo sailing voyage. His approach to sailing was a ruthless simplification of everything on his boat which facilitated maintainability. (The quote is from Steward Brand’s excellent book Maintenance of Everything, Vol 1.)
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