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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

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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Done Language Lolipop Need Only Programme Say Someone
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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Affect Fool Ignore Know Program Worth
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Lisp Parentheses Pen Programmer Thought Toast
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
You think you KNOW when you learn.
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Can Know Learn Sure Write
You can measure a programmer’s perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN.
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Attitude Continue Measure Nothing Perspective Programme Rothman
That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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Always Buddle Discard Meant Point See Soap Whole
When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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Compassion Computer Graduate Instist Professor Science Student
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Bird Early Make Often Software System Worm
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only

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