Less is more.
That is true of computer crashes, foreign call centres, queues, perms, Monday mornings and now wicketkeeping - at least in Brendon McCullum's case.
Having previously toyed with giving up the gloves in limited-overs cricket, he opted to give them away at test level instead.
And it's a decision which makes far more sense.
Back and knee concerns, and a desire to play as a specialist batsman meant a choice was always imminent.
No doubt the arrival of twenty/20 hastened his decision.
And how quickly the latest version of the game has clogged the international calendar.
It must come as a shock to some.
Five or so years ago, twenty/20 was a laughing stock only a few visionaries were willing to endorse.
The sight of the Black Caps, in their retro beige strip with their bad facial hair and even worse hairdos, rolling around laughing when they could not hit the stumps during a bowl-off with the West Indies at Eden Park in February 2006 hardly constituted a threat to the cricket world order.
But that all changed the moment a few wealthy Indian industrial tycoons exhibited their willingness to bankroll the frenzied form of the game.
Cricket has been dragged from the village greens to the world's television screens in a way like never before.
Twenty/20 is tailor-made for small screen, and it is only a matter of time before the game reaches a critical mass where it is no longer reliant on the reputation of players forged in the furnace of test cricket.
Players will emerge who will not have wasted a single second perfecting the forward defensive and for whom the suicide scoop, reverse sweep and switch-hitting are textbook shots.
The game is attracting a new group of fans who previously shunned the sport.
Cricket, in a way, is more democratic, and players like McCullum are the newly elected champions.
His ability to crash the ball to and over the boundary makes him one of the most sought-after players on the circuit.
Twenty/20 offers far greater financial rewards and McCullum adds to his value when he is prepared to stand behind the stumps.
From that perspective, his decision makes perfect sense.
Standing behind the stumps for an hour and a-half is hardly going to shorten his career, whereas three days in the field for the Black Caps doing 500-plus squats each day exacts a huge physical toll.
Undoubtedly, it is a blow for the Black Caps.
Some would say the test side is essentially one man down, and that is a concern.
But what remains unanswered is how much McCullum's batting will benefit when he is no longer splitting his time between honing his keeping skills and improving his batting technique.
It is only reasonable to expect improvements and, if he can lift his game a fraction, New Zealand will have found a top-order batsman capable of winning games.
For those who have watched with dismay at the regularity with which the selectors, hands forced, have chopped and changed in search of some consistency at the top, that is an exciting prospect.
Test cricket will survive alongside twenty/20.
In fact, I rather suspect the latter will help lift the standards of the former.
But it is curtains for one-day cricket.
Its roll-back is already under way.
Cricket Australia is reportedly considering introducing a new limited-overs format which would reduce the 50-over game to a 40-over game in which each team bats for two innings of 20 overs.
England and South Africa have already reduced their domestic limited-overs tournaments to 40 overs.
How long before New Zealand Cricket and the rest of the world follow suit?
