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• Never make anything simple and efficient when a way can be found to make it complex and wonderful.
• A complex system that works is invariably found to have evolved from a simple system that works.
  ...A complex system designed from scratch never works and cannot be patched up to make it work....
• To make people happy, you have to let them feel like they are in control of their environment.
  To do this, you need to correctly interpret their actions....
• brute force adj. Describes a primitive programming style
  one in which the programmer relies on the computer's processing power instead of using his or her own intelligence to simplify the problem, often ignoring problems of scale and applying naive methods suited to small problems directly to large ones....
• hook n. A software or hardware feature included in order to simplify later additions or changes by a user.
  For example, a simple program that prints numbers might always print them in base 10, but a more flexible version would let a variable determine what base to use...