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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> “<span class="quote">Complexity increases the possibility of failure; a
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twin-engine airplane has twice as many engine problems as a single-engine
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airplane.</span>” By analogy, in both software and electronics, the rule
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that simplicity increases robustness. It is correspondingly argued that
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the right way to build reliable systems is to put all your eggs in one
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basket, after making sure that you've built a really
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<span class="emphasis"><em>good</em></span> basket. See also
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<a href="../K/KISS-Principle.html"><i class="glossterm">KISS Principle</i></a>,
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