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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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Because of its vitality, the computing field is always in desperate need of new cliches.
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Always Click Compute Desperate Field Vitality
You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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Hard Improve Problem Solve Word Wrong
Adapting old programs to fit new machines usually means adapting new machines to behave like old ones.
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Adapt Behave Machine Mean Old One Program Usual
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
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Cast Die never Programmer Void
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only
To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Become Level Low Machine Understand Program
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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Done Mss Parameter Procedure Verge
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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Every Program Purpose Two Written
Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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Absorb Change Language Manage Program Progress Some Withstand
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
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
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