Larry Tesler

Larry Tesler--A computer scientist in the field of human-computer interaction, best known as the primary inventor of modeless editing and cut, copy, paste; his AI research; and for his work at Xerox PARC, ARM, Apple, Yahoo!, and Amazon. Learn about the people and technologies Larry worked with, and

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The Law of Conservation of Complexity

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"Every application has an inherent amount of irreducible complexity. The only question is: Who will have to deal with it—the user, the application developer, or the platform developer?" Larry Tesler's original law regarding complexity in software applications, and links to articles and pap