Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it.
ALAN PERLISIn computing, the mean time to failure keeps getting shorter.
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In software systems it is often the early bird that makes the worm.
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Once you understand how to write a program get someone else to write it.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Optimization hinders evolution.
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Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures.
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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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Is it possible that software is not like anything else.
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That it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?
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In programming, as in everything else, to be in error is to be reborn.
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Syntactic sugar causes cancer of the semicolon.
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Computer Science is embarrassed by the computer.
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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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Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it.
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If you have a procedure with 10 parameters, you probably missed some.
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We toast the Lisp programmer who pens his thoughts within nests of parentheses.
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