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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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I hope the field of computer science never loses its sense of fun.
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