Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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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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Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Every program has (at least) two purposes: the one for which it was written and another for which it wasn’t.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It is better to have 100 functions operate on one data structure than to have 10 functions operate on 10 data structures.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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