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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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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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When a professor insists computer science is X but not Y, have compassion for his graduate students.
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The best book on programming for the layman is Alice in Wonderland, but that’s because it’s the best book on anything for the layman.
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“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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Dealing with failure is easy.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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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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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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When it started out, it was an awful lot of fun. Of course, the paying customers got shafted every now and then, and after a while we began to take their complaints seriously.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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