Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
ALAN PERLISLearning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Any noun can be verbed.
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One man’s constant is another man’s variable.
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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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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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When someone says, “I want a programming language in which I need only say what I want done,” give him a lollipop.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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In the long run, every program becomes rococo, and then rubble.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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There is no such thing as a free variable.
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A picture is worth 10K words – but only those to describe the picture.
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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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To understand a program, you must become both the machine and the program.
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Learning French is trivial: the word for horse is cheval, and everything else follows in the same way.
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Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
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Every reader should ask himself periodically.
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