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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

One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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Computer Embarrasses Science
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
We began to feel as if we really were responsible for the successful, error-free perfect use of these machines.
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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful
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
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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Help Learn Live Matter Sustain Training
“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
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
Banality soothes our nerves.
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Banality Nerve Our
Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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Adequately Describe Hardly Picture Set Ten Thousand Word
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
One can’t proceed from the informal to the formal by formal means.
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Formal Informal Mean Proceed
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable

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