The most remarkable thing about the Universe might ultimately turn out to be...

“As we have looked more deeply into the structure of the underlying laws of Nature the impression we have is that things are very often simpler than we might have suspected. Just as the most expert computer programmer is the one who can write the shortest program to effect a particular task, so we might expect the Architect of the ultimate program that we call the laws of Nature to be elegantly economical on logic and raw materials. It is a common tendency to think  that  it  would  be  a  hallmark  of  the  Universe's  profundity  if  it  were  unfathomably  complicated,   but  this   is   a   strange  prejudice. This  view  is  motivated  by  the  idea  that  the  Creator  needs  to  be  superhuman—and  what  better  way  to  assert  that  superiority  than  by  incomprehensibility? But why should that be so? Anyone can explain how to assemble a model aircraft in 500 pages of instructions; it is not so easy to do it in 10 lines. Profound simplicity is far more impressive than profound complexity. The  most  remarkable  thing  about the Universe might ultimately turn out to be the very small number of  rules  and  components  required  to  define  it.”