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"Simplicity does not precede complexity, but follows it."
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"In my piano concerto I developed this polyphony to much higher complexity."
"I don't really have preferred roles except those with some complexity."
"Simple systems are not feasible because they require infinite testing."
"The nature of reality is such that every sufficiently complex event is statistically impossible, they are all one time events. This is a dynamic of novelty and so anything stable is forced to fluctuate including meaning. When we measure a thing we may not see the dynamics as a consequence of resolution. This is because the holographic information field has a nested hierarchy of scale."
"She decided to make his life as terrible, tragic and complicated as possible, so that some day Percy Jackson would have a really hard time writing about it."
"We're very familiar with the idea that some things are so complex they're beyond our comprehension. This not only keeps us solving and experimenting but also distracted. Many things are really so simple we can't see them under our big noses."
"There is no such complicated situation which people could not make more complicated."
"As American taxpayers know too well, the tax code is incredibly complex and compliance is all to expensive."
"Many lies lie between one truth."
"I hate American simplicity. I glory in the piling up of complications of every sort. If I could pronounce the name James in any different or more elaborate way I should be in favor of doing it."
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"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
"A picture is worth 10K words - but only those to describe the picture. Hardly any sets of 10K words can be adequately described with pictures."
"You can measure a programmer's perspective by noting his attitude on the continuing vitality of FORTRAN."
"The best book on programming for the layman is "Alice in Wonderland"; but that's because it's the best book on anything for the layman."
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