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<html xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml"><head><title>airplane rule</title><link rel="stylesheet" href="../../jargon.css" type="text/css"/><meta name="generator" content="DocBook XSL Stylesheets V1.61.0"/><link rel="home" href="../index.html" title="The Jargon File"/><link rel="up" href="../A.html" title="A"/><link rel="previous" href="AI-complete.html" title="AI-complete"/><link rel="next" href="Alderson-loop.html" title="Alderson loop"/></head><body><div class="navheader"><table width="100%" summary="Navigation header"><tr><th colspan="3" align="center">airplane rule</th></tr><tr><td width="20%" align="left"><a accesskey="p" href="AI-complete.html">Prev</a> </td><th width="60%" align="center">A</th><td width="20%" align="right"> <a accesskey="n" href="Alderson-loop.html">Next</a></td></tr></table><hr/></div><dt><a id="airplane-rule"/><dt xmlns="" id="airplane-rule"><b>airplane rule</b>: <span xmlns="http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml" class="grammar">n.</span></dt></dt><dd><p> &#8220;<span class="quote">Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a
twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine
airplane.</span>&#8221; By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule
that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that
the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one
basket, after making sure that you've built a really
<span class="emphasis"><em>good</em></span> basket. See also
<a href="../K/KISS-Principle.html"><i class="glossterm">KISS Principle</i></a>,
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