Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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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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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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