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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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C programmers never die. They are just cast into void.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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A good programming language is a conceptual universe for thinking about programming.
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We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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