George Whitesides : Toward a science of simplicity

George Whitesides·TED2010
Toward a science of simplicity
Summary
In fact, everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler.
You shouldn’t lose function, though, you have to have a low cost. There are many things that you can take to be simple.  1)

I love those sentences and thoughts. Around us, it’s too complex to cut costs. Probably, companies want to sell many things that are expensive. They think about adding.

You know you’ve achieved perfection in design, not when you have nothing more to add, but you have nothing more to take away. 2)
It’s really difficult. Things should be as simple as we can, as cheap as we can, as functional as we can and as freely, interconnectable as we can.
It’s important to combine and pile simple things up.

The speaker’s field is science. He tells us that for medical care, it’s important to be simple, cheap, functional, and reliable.  Good examples that he tells are a birth control pill and litmus paper.

In our world, technology is now really growing thus simplicity must be, l think, more important.

Words in this story
chisel 1, cut or shape (something) with a chisel: carefully chisel out a groove for the hinge. 2, informal, mainly North American cheat or swindle (someone) out of something: he's chiseled me out of my dues.