Rich Hickey talks about simple vs. easy:

• simple: not entangled with another braid. This is desirable.
• complect: to entangle with something else. The verb that leads to complexity.
• easy: nearby, accessible, doesn’t require much work on the programmer’s side. This is not desirable.
• Example for entanglement/complexity: connascence by sequence as seen in positional method arguments (vs. keyword arguments), syntax (vs. data structures), method chaining (vs. queueing).

Link: RailsConf 2012 keynote: Simplicity Matters by Rich Hickey – YouTube via www.youtube.com