Wednesday, April 13, 2011

How to KISS???

Now I am not teaching you how to kiss but to KISS.
KISS stands for Keep it simple, Stupid!!!

Let me follow this KISS principle. Let me "Keep it Simple and Sweet". Let me "Keep it simple and straightforward."

Use Occam's razor always. By the way, this razor doesn't shave your beard. But it shaves off the beard-like-unwanted-stuff from the problem you are looking at. Meaning, it is just a complicated explanation of KISS principle instead. Stupid Occam (actually Ockham) didn't keep it simple here.

Some big times comedies that failed to follow KISS principle are here:
PizzaHut introduced new sizes for their Pizzas to attract more customers. Those sizes were - large and big. Now here the confusion starts that whether the large one is bigger than the big one or the big one is larger than the large one. They just complicated it and confused their customers.

RJ Reynold's smokeless cigarettes were a terrible flop in 1988. How do you expect to sell a cigarette without
smoke in the market? Why cant they just "KISS"?

A 2009 survey by British Telecom Home IT support reveals that 71% of Britons have upto 10 electronic gadgets that are unused because of their complicated  features and so called "user-friendliness".

So the simple message is that always keep KISSing. Another small pick from my favorite novel- "Deception point" (Dan Brown) says - "When multiple explanations exist, the simplest is usually correct." Very true!!!





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