Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
ALAN PERLISSimplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Work hard to improve. Success is also easy to handle.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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It goes against the grain of modern education to teach children to program.
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Don’t have good ideas if you aren’t willing to be responsible for them.
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If your computer speaks English, it was probably made in Japan.
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Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it.
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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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What fun is there in making plans, acquiring discipline in organizing thoughts, devoting attention to detail and learning to be self-critical?
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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You’ve solved the wrong problem. Work hard to improve.
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A LISP programmer knows the value of everything, but the cost of nothing.
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Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.
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