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KISS principle, the Glossary

KISS, an acronym for "Keep it simple, stupid!", is a design principle first noted by the U.S. Navy in 1960.^[1]

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Acronym

An acronym is an abbreviation of a phrase that usually consists of the initial letter of each word in all caps with no punctuation.

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Albert Einstein (14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955) was a German-born theoretical physicist who is widely held as one of the most influential scientists. Best known for developing the theory of relativity, Einstein also made important contributions to quantum mechanics. His mass–energy equivalence formula, which arises from relativity theory, has been called "the world's most famous equation".

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American English

American English (AmE), sometimes called United States English or U.S. English, is the set of varieties of the English language native to the United States.

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Antoine de Saint-Exupéry

Antoine Marie Jean-Baptiste Roger, Vicomte de Saint-Exupéry, known simply as Antoine de Saint-Exupéry ((29 June 1900;– 31 July 1944), was a French writer, poet, journalist and aviator. He received several prestigious literary awards for his novella The Little Prince (Le Petit Prince) and for his lyrical aviation writings, including Wind, Sand and Stars and Night Flight (Vol de nuit).

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Arch Linux

Arch Linux is an independently developed x86-64 general-purpose Linux distribution that strives to provide the latest stable versions of most software by following a rolling-release model.

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Bjarne Stroustrup

Bjarne Stroustrup (born 30 December 1950) is a Danish computer scientist, known for the development of the C++ programming language.

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BLUF (communication)

BLUF (bottom line up front) is the practice of beginning a message with its key information (the "bottom line").

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C. Northcote Parkinson

Cyril Northcote Parkinson (30 July 1909 – 9 March 1993) was a British naval historian and author of some 60 books, the most famous of which was his best-seller Parkinson's Law (1957), in which Parkinson advanced the eponymous law stating that "work expands so as to fill the time available for its completion", an insight which led him to be regarded as an important scholar in public administration and management.

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Canada

Canada is a country in North America.

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Chartjunk

Chartjunk consists of all visual elements in charts and graphs that are not necessary to comprehend the information represented on the graph, or that distract the viewer from this information.

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Chicago Tribune

The Chicago Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Chicago, Illinois, owned by Tribune Publishing.

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Colin Chapman

Anthony Colin Bruce Chapman (19 May 1928 – 16 December 1982) was an English design engineer, inventor, and builder in the automotive industry, and founder of the sports car company Lotus Cars.

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Concision

In common usage and linguistics, concision (also called conciseness, succinctness, terseness, brevity, or laconicism) is a communication principle of eliminating redundancy,UNT Writing Lab.

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Dead Sure

Segurista (International title: Dead Sure) is a 1996 Philippine neo-noir drama film directed by Tikoy Aguiluz.

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Design

A design is the concept of or proposal for an object, process, or system.

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Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life

Disney Animation: The Illusion of Life (later republished as The Illusion of Life: Disney Animation) is a book by Frank Thomas and Ollie Johnston, two of the key animators at Disney during the Golden age of American animation.

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Disney's Nine Old Men

Disney's Nine Old Men were a group of Walt Disney Productions' core animators, who worked at the studio from the 1920s to the 1980s.

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Don't repeat yourself

"Don't repeat yourself" (DRY) is a principle of software development aimed at reducing repetition of information which is likely to change, replacing it with abstractions that are less likely to change, or using data normalization which avoids redundancy in the first place. KISS principle and Don't repeat yourself are programming principles.

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Dr. Seuss

Theodor Seuss Geisel (. Random House Unabridged Dictionary. in the Webster's Dictionary March 2, 1904 – September 24, 1991) was an American children's author and cartoonist.

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Elegance

Elegance is beauty that shows unusual effectiveness and simplicity.

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Euphemism

A euphemism is an innocuous word or expression used in place of one that is deemed offensive or suggests something unpleasant.

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Filipino language

Filipino (Wikang Filipino) is a language under the Austronesian language family.

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Henry David Thoreau

Henry David Thoreau (July 12, 1817May 6, 1862) was an American naturalist, essayist, poet, and philosopher.

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Insurance

Insurance is a means of protection from financial loss in which, in exchange for a fee, a party agrees to compensate another party in the event of a certain loss, damage, or injury.

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It's the economy, stupid

"The economy, stupid" is a phrase that was coined by Jim Carville in 1992.

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Jet aircraft

A jet aircraft (or simply jet) is an aircraft (nearly always a fixed-wing aircraft) propelled by one or more jet engines.

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Johan Cruyff

Hendrik Johannes Cruijff (25 April 1947 – 24 March 2016), commonly known as Johan Cruyff, was a Dutch professional football player and manager.

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Keep It Straight and Simple Party

The Keep It Straight and Simple Party (known simply as the KISS Party) was a minor South African classical liberal political party.

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Kelly Johnson (engineer)

Clarence Leonard "Kelly" Johnson (February 27, 1910 – December 21, 1990) was an American aeronautical and systems engineer.

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KISS NB

KISS NB (Keep It Simple Solutions, New Brunswick), founded in 2017 by former dairy farmer and ambulance volunteer, Gerald Bourque, is an unregistered political party based in the province of New Brunswick, Canada.

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List of military slang terms

Military slang is a colloquial language used by and associated with members of various military forces.

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List of software development philosophies

This is a list of approaches, styles, methodologies, and philosophies in software development and engineering. KISS principle and list of software development philosophies are software development philosophies.

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List of U.S. Navy acronyms

The United States Navy, like any organization, produces its own acronyms and abbreviations, which often come to have meaning beyond their bare expansions.

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Liza Lorena

Elizabeth Ann Jolene Luciano Winsett (born October 31, 1949) known professionally as Liza Lorena is a Filipina actress.

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Lockheed Martin

The Lockheed Martin Corporation is an American aerospace and defense manufacturer with worldwide interests.

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Lockheed SR-71 Blackbird

The Lockheed SR-71 "Blackbird" is a retired long-range, high-altitude, Mach 3+ strategic reconnaissance aircraft developed and manufactured by the American aerospace company Lockheed Corporation.

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Lockheed U-2

The Lockheed U-2, nicknamed "Dragon Lady", is an American single-engine, high altitude reconnaissance aircraft operated from the 1950s by the United States Air Force (USAF) and the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA).

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Lotus Cars

Lotus Group (also known as Lotus Cars, and doing business as Lotus NYO in China) is a British multinational automotive manufacturer of luxury sports cars and electric vehicles.

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Ludwig Mies van der Rohe

Ludwig Mies van der Rohe (born Maria Ludwig Michael Mies; March 27, 1886August 17, 1969) was a German-American architect, academic, and interior designer.

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Mechanic

A mechanic is a skilled tradesperson who uses tools to build, maintain, or repair machinery, especially cars.

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Mini survival kit

A mini survival kit contains essential outdoor survival tools and supplies.

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Minimalism

In visual arts, music and other media, minimalism was an art movement that began in post–World War II in Western art, and it is most strongly associated with American visual arts in the 1960s and early 1970s. KISS principle and minimalism are simple living.

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Minimalism (computing)

In computing, minimalism refers to the application of minimalist philosophies and principles in the design and use of hardware and software. KISS principle and minimalism (computing) are software development philosophies.

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Minor party

A minor party is a political party that plays a smaller (in some cases much smaller, even insignificant in comparison) role than a major party in a country's politics and elections.

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Muntzing

Muntzing is the practice and technique of reducing the components inside an electronic appliance to the minimum required for it to sufficiently function in most operating conditions, reducing design margins above minimum requirements toward zero.

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Neo-noir

Neo-noir is a revival of film noir, a genre that had originally flourished during and after World War II in the United Statesroughly from 1940 to 1960.

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New Brunswick

New Brunswick (Nouveau-Brunswick) is one of the thirteen provinces and territories of Canada.

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Occam's razor

In philosophy, Occam's razor (also spelled Ockham's razor or Ocham's razor; novacula Occami) is the problem-solving principle that recommends searching for explanations constructed with the smallest possible set of elements.

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Perfect is the enemy of good

Perfect is the enemy of good is an aphorism which means insistence on perfection often prevents implementation of good improvements.

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Perl

Perl is a high-level, general-purpose, interpreted, dynamic programming language.

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Political party

A political party is an organization that coordinates candidates to compete in a particular country's elections.

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Rear admiral

Rear admiral is a flag officer rank used by English-speaking navies.

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Reduced instruction set computer

In electronics and computer science, a reduced instruction set computer (RISC) is a computer architecture designed to simplify the individual instructions given to the computer to accomplish tasks.

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Richard Williams (animator)

Richard Edmund Williams (March 19, 1933 – August 16, 2019) was a Canadian-British animator, voice actor, and painter.

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Rube Goldberg machine

A Rube Goldberg machine, named after American cartoonist Rube Goldberg, is a chain reaction–type machine or contraption intentionally designed to perform a simple task in an indirect and (impractically) overly complicated way.

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Rule of least power

In programming, the rule of least power is a design principle that "suggests choosing the least powerful language suitable for a given purpose". KISS principle and rule of least power are software development philosophies.

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Simple living

Simple living refers to practices that promote simplicity in one's lifestyle.

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Simplicity

Simplicity is the state or quality of being simple. KISS principle and Simplicity are simple living.

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Skunk Works

Skunk Works is an official pseudonym for Lockheed Martin's Advanced Development Programs (ADP), formerly called Lockheed Advanced Development Projects. It is responsible for a number of aircraft designs, highly classified research and development programs, and exotic aircraft platforms.

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Slackware

Slackware is a Linux distribution created by Patrick Volkerding in 1993.

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Software development

Software development is the process used to create software.

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South Africa

South Africa, officially the Republic of South Africa (RSA), is the southernmost country in Africa.

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Star Tribune

The Star Tribune is an American daily newspaper based in Minneapolis, Minnesota.

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Steve Jobs

Steven Paul Jobs (February 24, 1955 – October 5, 2011) was an American businessman, inventor, and investor best known for co-founding the technology company Apple Inc. Jobs was also the founder of NeXT and chairman and majority shareholder of Pixar.

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Survival kit

A survival kit is a package of basic tools and supplies prepared as an aid to survival in an emergency.

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The Animator's Survival Kit

The Animator's Survival Kit: A Manual of Methods, Principles, and Formulas for Classical, Computer, Games, Stop Motion, and Internet Animators, or simply The Animator's Survival Kit is an instructional book by animator and director Richard Williams.

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The Fox and the Cat (fable)

The Fox and the Cat is an ancient fable, with both Eastern and Western analogues involving different animals, that addresses the difference between resourceful expediency and a master stratagem.

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The Office (American TV series)

The Office is an American mockumentary sitcom television series based on the 2001–2003 BBC series of the same name created by (and starring) Ricky Gervais and Stephen Merchant.

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Ultralight backpacking

Ultralight backpacking (sometimes written as UL backpacking) is a style of lightweight backpacking that emphasizes carrying the lightest and least amount of gear.

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United States Air Force

The United States Air Force (USAF) is the air service branch of the United States Armed Forces, and is one of the eight uniformed services of the United States.

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Unix philosophy

The Unix philosophy, originated by Ken Thompson, is a set of cultural norms and philosophical approaches to minimalist, modular software development. KISS principle and Unix philosophy are software development philosophies.

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W. Heath Robinson

William Heath Robinson (31 May 1872 – 13 September 1944) was an English cartoonist, illustrator and artist, best known for drawings of whimsically elaborate machines to achieve simple objectives.

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William Shakespeare

William Shakespeare (23 April 1564 – 23 April 1616) was an English playwright, poet and actor.

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Worse is better

Worse is better (also called the New Jersey style) is a term conceived by Richard P. Gabriel in a 1989 essay to describe the dynamics of software acceptance. KISS principle and Worse is better are programming principles and software development philosophies.

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You aren't gonna need it

"You aren't gonna need it" (YAGNI) is a principle which arose from extreme programming (XP) that states a programmer should not add functionality until deemed necessary. KISS principle and You aren't gonna need it are programming principles and software development philosophies.

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References

[1] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KISS_principle

Also known as K-I-S-S, K-I-S-S!, K.I.S.S, K.I.S.S., KISS concept, KISS rule, KISS-principle, Keep It Simple Stupid, Keep It Simple, Stupid, Keep it simple, Keep it simple sailor, Keep it simple soldier, Keep it simple, soldier, Keep it simple, stupid!.

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