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The article miss a citation source of "the story of Johnson handing a team of design engineers a handful of tools". I do not know it.

Occam's razor is listed both in the "Variants" section and under "See also". Is this strictly required? Is it a problem? Is it not funny to have redundant links on this page in particular?

192.77.12.11 ( talk) 01:21, 9 March 2022 (UTC) reply

Proposing the addition of "It's the economy, stupid" to the list of variants and/or list of political usages. It follows the same pattern and has the same implication of avoiding complication in an approach. A.lilac.future ( talk) 13:21, 12 July 2023 (UTC) reply

Another possible addition to the variants E.F. Schumacher 's quote "Any intelligent fool can make things bigger and more complex... It takes a touch of genius - and a lot of courage to move in the opposite direction." ^[1] WorldsWanderer ( talk) 11:22, 10 July 2024 (UTC) reply