Editing KISS principle (section)

==Variants==
The principle most probably finds its origins in similar [[Minimalism|minimalist]] concepts, such as:
* [[Occam's razor]];
* "Simplicity is the ultimate sophistication";
* [[Shakespeare]]'s "Brevity is the soul of wit";
* [[Mies van der Rohe]]'s "[[Less is more (architecture)|Less is more]]";
* [[Bjarne Stroustrup]]'s "Make Simple Tasks Simple!";
* [[Dr. Seuss]]'s ode to brevity: "So the writer who breeds more words than he needs, is making a chore for the reader who reads";
* [[Johan Cruyff]]'s "Playing football is very simple but playing simple football is the hardest thing there is";
* [[Antoine de Saint-Exupéry]]'s "It seems that perfection is reached not when there is nothing left to add, but when there is nothing left to take away";
* [[Colin Chapman]], the founder of [[Lotus Cars]], urged his designers to "Simplify, then add lightness";
* Attributed to [[Albert Einstein]], although this may be an editor's paraphrase of a lecture he gave,<ref>{{cite web|title=Everything Should Be Made as Simple as Possible, But Not Simpler|date=13 May 2011 |url=http://quoteinvestigator.com/2011/05/13/einstein-simple/#more-2363|publisher=Quote Investigator}}</ref> "Make everything as simple as possible, but not simpler";
* [[Steve Jobs]]'s "<s>Simplify</s>, <s>Simplify</s>, Simplify",<ref>{{Cite web |title=Simplify Simplify Simplify Message on the wall of... |url=https://blog.ramonvullings.com/post/77099512035/simplify-simplify-simplify-message-on-the-wall-of |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Ramon Vullings - ideaDJ Blog |date=18 February 2014 |language=en}}</ref><ref>{{Cite web |last=Makovsky |first=Ken |title=Inside Apple #2 |url=https://www.forbes.com/sites/kenmakovsky/2012/12/06/inside-apple-2/ |access-date=2022-04-03 |website=Forbes |language=en}}</ref> which simplified [[Henry David Thoreau]]'s quote "Simplify, simplify, simplify" for emphasis;
* [[C._Northcote_Parkinson|Northcote Parkinson]], British academic and sometimes military officer and military critic, expressed this idea as "Parkinson's Third Law" ({{circa|1957}}): "Expansion means complexity and complexity, decay; or to put it even more plainly—the more complex, the sooner dead";

[[Heath Robinson]] contraptions and [[Rube Goldberg machine|Rube Goldberg's machines]], intentionally overly-complex solutions to simple tasks or problems, are humorous examples of "non-KISS" solutions.