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"The ordinary can be like medicine."
"It occurred to me what a simple thing reality is, how easy it is to make it work. It's just reality. Just housework. Just a home. Like running a simple machine. Once you learn to run it, it's just a matter of repetition. You push this button and pull that lever. You adjust a gauge, put on the lid, set the timer. The same thing, over and over."
"Most often simplicity defines the true beauty of a great life."
"Simplicity simplicity simplicity. I say let your affairs be as two or three and not a hundred or a thousand instead of a million count half a dozen and keep your accounts on your thumbnail."
"Water - a thoroughly underrated drink."
"Sometimes the grandest of all events are described in the poverty of a few simple words."
"Soccer is simple, but it is difficult to play simple."
"Beauty is not in complexity but it's in simplicity."
"Manifest plainness,Embrace simplicity,Reduce selfishness,Have few desires."
"Man falls from the pursuit of the ideal of plan living and high thinking the moment he wants to multiply his daily wants. Man's happiness really lies in contentment."
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"Elegance is not a dispensable luxury but a factor that decides between success and failure."
"The lurking suspicion that something could be simplified is the world's richest source of rewarding challenges."
"Don't compete with me: firstly, I have more experience, and secondly, I have chosen the weapons."
"If 10 years from now, when you are doing something quick and dirty, you suddenly visualize that I am looking over your shoulders and say to yourself: 'Dijkstra would not have liked this', well that would be enough immortality for me."
"APL is a mistake, carried through to perfection. It is the language of the future for the programming techniques of the past: it creates a new generation of coding bums."
"Many mathematicians derive part of their self-esteem by feeling themselves the proud heirs of a long tradition of rational thinking; I am afraid they idealize their cultural ancestors."
"It is practically impossible to teach good programming to students that have had a prior exposure to BASIC: as potential programmers they are mentally mutilated beyond hope of regeneration."
"Why has elegance found so little following? That is the reality of it. Elegance has the disadvantage, if that's what it is, that hard work is needed to achieve it and a good education to appreciate it."
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