Amiga: The Computer That Wouldn't Die

[Holley]

Amigo - the trouble with elegance is that scaling it (compared to a brute force solution) is much harder.  For the jumps that Amiga made in technology PCs would go through 100 small developments in every area.

[Holley]

or one really creative, smart person

For a recent example of that not really working out see how Nintendo's hardware has gone ... unfortunately elegant design just doesn't work in real life (would be nice if it did, though!).