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I Have Yet To See Any Problem, However Complicated, Which, When You Looked At It In The Right Way, Did Not Become Still More Complicated.
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when
you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson
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I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when looked at in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderso...
I have yet to see any problem, however complicated, which, when you looked at it in the right way, did not become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderso...
After all my time here, I've yet to see any problem, however complicated, which when you looked at it the right way didn't become still more complicated.
-- Poul Anderson [on doing research]...
There is no problem that, when programmed just right, isn't more complicated.
No matter how complicated you think it is, it's still more complicated. -- Joel
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