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Motto for a research laboratory: what we work on today, others will first think of tomorrow.

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In English every word can be verbed.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
In English every word can be verbed. Would that it were so in our programming languages.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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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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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Complexity Follow Precede Simplicity
We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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Like seeing, movement or flow or alteration of view is more important than the static picture, no matter how lovely.
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One can only display complex information in the mind.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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Are more sure when you can write, even more when you can teach, but certain when you can program.
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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove 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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A programming language is low level when its programs require attention to the irrelevant.
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A language that doesn’t affect the way you think about programming is not worth knowing.
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