This is one of my favourite quotes from Three Men in a Boat by Jerome K Jerome (download or read online at Manybooks.net) as George, Harris and J are deciding what to pack for their holiday. It seems to be increasingly relevant when it comes to the software already installed on computers or included in driver downloads.

For example, I had to download a driver for an hp scanner the other day and was amazed to discover that the download was 120MB in size. It's not just the driver but all the extra software that want to helpful that goes with it.

Lifehacker ran an interesting article on the subject asking readers what programs they would never install.

It might be a slightly negative approach but too many 'good ideas' about what to include with software just drain performance, or take ages to download.