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Tue 6 Sep, 2011 11:57 pm
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It is found that anything that can go wrong at sea generally does go wrong sooner or later, so it is not to be wondered that owners prefer the safe to the scientific.... Sufficient stress can hardly be laid on the advantages of simplicity. The human factor cannot be safely neglected in planning machinery. If attention is to be obtained, the engine must be such that the engineer will be disposed to attend to it.[1]
@oristarA,
You've broken up the expression. The expression is "to lay stress on," which means to emphasize. So,
Sufficient stress can hardly be laid on the advantages of simplicity. means that one can hardly sufficiently emphaxize the advantages of simplicity.