Ray Ozzie – Dawn of a New Day (his 2010 Microsoft farewell memo):

"Complexity kills. Complexity sucks the life out of users, developers and IT. Complexity makes products difficult to plan, build, test and use. Complexity introduces security challenges. Complexity causes administrator frustration.

And as time goes on and as software products mature – even with the best of intent – complexity is inescapable.

[…] In our industry, if you can imagine something, you can build it. […] And so, the first step for each of us is to imagine fearlessly; to dream."