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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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Attention Irrelevant Language Low Program Require
Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Cheval Everything Follow Horse Language Learn Same Trivial Way Word
In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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Describe Picture Ten Thousand Word Worth
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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