That sentiment holds true for engineering at large. Take this delightful test of any engineering effort: Does your device, your robot, your app do what it is supposed to? Does your fancy space-exploring robot work as you planned? Making things too complex, too overwrought, is one of the fastest ways to fail. In our designs we look for the simplest, lowest-risk way of solving a problem. Sometimes that solution looks brutish and maybe lowbrow. But if it works, we have done what we needed to do with the least risk and usually at the lowest cost.
