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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.

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If a listener nods his head when you’re explaining your program, wake him up.
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I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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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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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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In English every word can be verbed.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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