From Kernighan and Pike's The UNIX Programming Environment:
"For most purposes, this simple scheme is exactly what is wanted. When a more complicated structure is needed, it can easily be built on top of this; the converse, creating simplicity from complexity, is harder to achieve."
and
"Instead of creating distinctions, the UNIX system tries to efface them."
(see AwesomelySimple, ComplexSimplicity, OnAesthetics)
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(correlates: OnAesthetics, WorldSeriesLines, AwesomelySimple, ...)