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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.

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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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Awful Began Complain Course Customer Pay Seriously Shafted Start
Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Computer Country English Made Probably Speak
Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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Free Such Thing Variable
A year spent in artificial intelligence is enough to make one believe in God.
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Artificial Believe Enough God Intelligence Spent
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
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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Another Constant Man Variable
In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word “frustration”.
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Compute Defibation Frustration Live Obvious Turn Useful Word
It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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Alternation Important Life Lovely Matter More Movement Picture Seek View
I don’t think we are. I think we’re responsible for stretching them, setting them off in new directions, and keeping fun in the house.
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Direction House Keep Responsible Set Stretch Think
In man-machine symbiosis, it is man who must adjust: The machines can’t.
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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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Bagan Error Feel Free Machine Perfect Responsible Successful

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