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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Every Program Long Rubble Run
Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Certain Even More Program Sure Teach Write
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Acquire Attention Critical Detail Devote Fun Make Organization Plan Self
A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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Affect Language Program Think Worth
A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
In English every word can be verbed.
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English Language Language Programming Languages
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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Computer Field Fun Hope Lose Science Sense
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable

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