"For every problem there is a solution which is simple, clean and wrong." - H.L. Mencken
Complicatedness
- Methods/tools/knowledge/experts can solve
- rather technical topics
- Good example: mechanical clockwork
- Complicatedness is in a sense a measure of ignorance.
- [DE] Kompliziertheit
Complexity
- Want to simplify, but can only be done with errors (in the model/solution/result)
- rather natural topics
- good example: a child's birthday party
- [DE] Komplexität
