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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 English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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English Language Program Verb Word
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
A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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Conceptual Good Language Program Think Universe
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
I think that it’s extraordinarily important that we in computer science keep fun in computing.
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Compute Computer Extraordinary Fun Important Science Think
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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Good Idea Responsible Them Will
Any noun can be verbed.
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Any Noun One Liner Verb
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
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder Optimization
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Against Children Education Go Grain Modern Program Teach
Everything should be built top-down, except the first time.
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Build Down Everything Except First Time Up
“Toward what end, toward what end?”-but do not ask it too often lest you pass up the fun of programming for the constipation of bittersweet philosophy.
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Bittersweet End Fun Least Often Pass Philosophy Program Toward
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word

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