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"Fools ignore complexity. Pragmatists suffer it. Some can avoid it. Geniuses remove it."
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"It's simple, it's not that simple; or life is simple, but the things in it are not. When a man does not understand it, he tends to inflate it. When he does, he tends to deflate it. In the end, neither images are fully accurate."
"Many lies lie between one truth."
"The brain represented the most complex organism ever to exist, and impossible to tame. Morality could not be spawned by tweaking a few genes or shutting off a few neurons. Not yet. So though humanity conquered the very stars, it remained unable to conquer the darkness within."
"As a human I'm complex, as a human I don't have limits, but the book have it's own limits. All the time something good happens?? But why people don't continue to live in horror??It satisfies me, to see how people suck blood it's a symptom that you are watching a vampire... But it's to far isn't it??Sometimes to dream, how you dream and how you wake up in the dream and you wake up from that dream... wow that's awesome!?"
"Gamache nodded. It was what made his job so fascinating, and so difficult. How the same person could be both kind and cruel, compassionate and wretched. Unraveling a murder was more about getting to know the people than the evidence. People who were contrary and contradictory, and who often didn't even know themselves."
"Expansion means complexity and complexity decay."
"There were so many different versions of him. It was countless versions of a song, and they were all original, and they were all true, and they were all right. It should have been impossible. Was I supposed to love them all?"
"The complexity of things - the things within things - just seems to be endless. I mean nothing is easy, nothing is simple."
"There's no limit to how complicated things can get, on account of one thing always leading to another."
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"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."
"Is it possible that software is not like anything else, that it is meant to be discarded: that the whole point is to always see it as a soap bubble?"
"I think it is inevitable that people program poorly. Training will not substantially help matters. We have to learn to live with it."
"In computing, turning the obvious into the useful is a living definition of the word "frustration"."
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