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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

A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Cost Everything Know Lips Nothing Program
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
In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Compute Failure Get Mean Shorter Time
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
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
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
Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Also Easy Handle Hard Improve Success Work
Often it is the means that justify the ends: goals advance technique and technique survives even when goal structures crumble.
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Advance Crumble End Justify Often Structure Survive Technique
Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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Every Raeder Himself Periodically
Optimization hinders evolution.
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Evolution Hinder One Liner Optimization
I think it is inevitable that people program poorly.
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Inevitable People Poorly Program Think
It is easier to change the specification to fit the program than vice versa.
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Chance Earlier Program Specification Versa Vice
Dealing with failure is easy.
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Deal Easy Failure
Programmers are not to be measured by their ingenuity and their logic but by the completeness of their case analysis.
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Analysis Complutense Identity Logic Measure Program
Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Cancer Cause Semicolon Sugar Syntactic
One can only display complex information in the mind.
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Complex Display Information Mind Only

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